For my post I will be obviously posting about Nicholas Sparks' "The Notebook." In my opinion it is a phenomenal drama/romance. Nicholas Sparks has always been my favorite author, catching my eye with the books The Lucky One, Save Haven, The Choice, The Rescue, A Bend In the Road, The Last Song, and of course The Notebook. This movie is great for this coming Monday, February 14. For those of you who do not know what it is about, I'll tell you, and for a better description go HERE!
The Notebook starts out with this old man, Duke (James Garner), who is telling this woman, Allie Calhoun (Gena Rowlands), a story from this notebook. In the story he is telling Allie is about a young woman named, Allie Calhoun (Rachel McAdams), nevertheless, who comes from a rich powerful family. Soon enough she finds herself falling in love with, Noah (Ryan Gosling), who barely makes enough to live by. They have a summer romance but to no avail. Allie's mother doesn't want Allie to stay with Noah so she ships Allie off to New York. As Allie waits for Noah to write her (for 7 years), she is soon engaged to a wealthy man, Lon (James Marsden). As Allie plans her wedding, Noah fixes a 200year-old house to show Allie "he's doing alright" but when Allie sees his photo in a newspaper, she can't stop loving him again. So she winds up having to choose between a wealthy man who can support her, give her a prosperous life, and her parents approve of, or a man she's madly in love with.
Now you can fight all you want about saying "She can be provided for and she chooses the poor man and in the process she breaks the rich mans heart," but she doesn't want to be 'provided for.' Allie wants a man she can be happy with, fight with, and fall in love with every single day. Now I hope you'll read the book and/or see the movie. I promise most of you, it deserves 5stars (out of 5).
****And for the record, I give Dear John (movie and book) 0stars.
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