Review of The Notebook (2004) by Christine D — 18 Dec 2013

This classic long-running movie, The Notebook really impressed me. This movie directed by Nick Cassavetes. He also directed famous movies such as "The Hangover Part2", "My sister's Keeper" and so on. I like "My sister's keeper" too. I heared that he made this movie independently so I supposed that things he wanted to tell the audience were reflected directly. It is rare that the director who plays an active part as a professional make an independent movie so I thought that was why I was a little confused with understanding his thoughts.

Please let me explain about this story. One old woman who got dementia could not remember all of her memories because of her disease. One day, an old man by the name of "Duke" came to visit the old woman and read one romance story to her. The story is about one boy named Noah and one girl named Allie. As the old woman heard the story, she finally noticed that the girl named Allie in the story was herself. And the old man who read the book to the old woman was the boy named Noah. He was the husband of the old woman. He wanted the old woman to remind their memories so he believed her and tried to read about their memories again and again.

When I was watching this movie, I was moved by scene settings, story, all harmonious background music and actors. The director tends to make scenes very dark and quiet in this movie so it made all scenes impressive for me. Sometimes I was likely to cry because of the great choice of back ground music. I think sound effects play a very important role to make the movie interesting. And also I was impressed by their act. Ryan Gosling who acted the boy named Noah was especially nice. His heartrending act brought tears to my eyes. The editor also made rapid shifts of scenes many times, so I was so excited and the technique gave me the feeling of being in the movie. Last scene is the biggest happiness for people who have the partner you love, This movie was so sad and painful but finally your heart absolutely can get warmed by the superb ending. It became one of my favorite movies.