It's not wonder why the novels and the films written by perhaps one of the greatest romance novelists in history, are so popular. This film, particularly, explores genuine themes of love and death, presenting the idea that love is worth fighting for. Using mise-en-scene, visual elements within the camera's frame focuses on telling the story, evoking sensory emotions through common human feelings and experiences. There are noticeable melodramatic clichés following the irony of rich, reputative girl falls for poor, hardworking boy - both from opposite ends of the social spectrum. Alongside the difficulty and distress of Allie's parents' disapproval, tearing the two apart, you really admire the sentimentality of the story, especially as Noah contests for Allie throughout most of the storyline. The two reignite their incessant, passionate love following Allie's engagement with another man. The seamless weaving of the elderly man and woman in the present with Noah and Allie's connection in the past, makes their romance even more classic. It is evident that Ryan Gosling (Noah) and Rachel McAdams (Allison "Allie") have a strong connection, thus consistently providing the viewers with realistic aspect of love; including the positives and negatives. The main actors, Gosling and McAdams, perceive their characters very well, emotionally and physically throughout the film. This story isn't just narrow and straightforward, there are twists and ultimatums, thus making the story even more meaningful and engaging. Watching this film never fails to provide the audience with an exploding mixture of emotions.

Don't waste one minute of your life on this!! Ryan Gosling is a crap actor, and a gooney dude anyway..

The most beautiful romance movie I've ever seen. The chemistry between the couple is very shocking. I love to review it and tell all my friends.

The notebook is a charming romance movie that easily transports you back into the 40ies to tell its pretty implausible story of a woman torn between two men.That being said, I do not understand Ryan Gosling's acting at all, especially not in a romance flick.Like in the movie Drive, his character keeps the same constant look of detached, dreamy, slightly silly, perpetual slight amusement on his face all the time - whether he meets the love of his life, or his best friend dies - it doesn't seem to make any difference to him.I simply don't understand whats the point of that. In a romance movie, the actors should try their best to convey believable emotions, not try to hide them at all cost? While in Drive, this sort of acting made some sort of sense within the generally weird framework of that movie, it just seems completely out of place in a romance movie, and is especially noticeable here because of its contrast to the lively, hearty performance of Heather Wahlquist as Sara.In the end, this did not really completely ruin the movie for me, but I still found it distracting and detrimental to the overall charm of an otherwise above-average romance movie.Still, the high rating on IMDb would have irritated me either way, but I guess the tear-jerking end served to push that up.5/10