the notebook

so here i am again..writing a review for yet another movie i liked..make no mistake i dont review just about every movie iv watched..with the sheer number of them i watch all the time, this space would just overflow if i were ever to do that..hehe..

so now back to what i started with.."the notebook" is a love story..n a sweeter one i never saw..iv always been kind of a sucker for stuff like "a walk to remember" n "love story" n all..when im in the mood that is..and a saturday night with a packet of chips, chocolates n some fresh hot coffee..makes for great atmosphere..i had heard of it..even read a few reviews..but probably wouldnt have watched it if there were any better choices available on lan..but since iv watched probably every good movie ever made, finding something like that was a chance one shouldnt bet on..so i was resigned to watch this mushy romantic movie with quite a bit of misgivings..and at the end was blown away..totally..

an old man in a nursing home reads a story from a notebook..a diary..to an old woman suffering from dementia and whose memory is slipping from her more and more everyday..set in the 1940s, it is the story of two lovers who meet in the south at a carnival..allie was 17, a city girl from money..and noah was a country boy..the two fall crazily in love and spend the whole summer together but allie is forced to move and go to college..noah writes 365 letters..one for each day..for a year..but she never gets them..7 years pass and allie meets and falls in love with a wealthy soldier lon..but an article in the paper with noah standing in front of a fully restored, 200 year old home draws allie to him..the last time she saw the house it was a rotted decaying shamble..it had been noah's dream to buy and restore the house..for her..just the way she wanted it..she goes back to him to sort things out in her head..and to seek some closure..they spend a few magical days together and she doesn't want to leave ever again..allie now has to choose between her fiancé and noah..

thats all that can be said without letting out the plot..and it is really very very cute..the end is just sooo sweet..n lemme tell you..nothing is more adorable (or luckier) than old love..two old people dancing..gazing at each other as they did 50 years ago..anyway this is one movie even a part-time romantic like me will love..n it has all the magic of a timeless classic..dont miss it..happy watching..

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more..
that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds..