The play begins with an elderly person in a nursing home reading to an elderly woman with Alzheimer's disease, the elderly read one summer, the rich family Ellie (Rachel McAdams) went on vacation in Water Creek Town, South Carolina, and was loved at first sight by the poor boy Noah (Ryan Gosling) at the carnival, Noah stalked and played a strange trick to ask Ellie to travel, the two fell in love with each other, but they were torn apart by Ellie's parents because of the wrong door, Ellie went to New York University, and Noah stayed alone in Water Creek Town.
The elderly continue to tell this familiar love story to the old woman; Noah writes 365 love letters a day after Ellie leaves, all blocked by Ellie's mother (Joan Allen), and when World War II broke out in the same year, Ellie became engaged to the wealthy and handsome Hammond (James Madden) while working as a nurse.
Knowing this, Noah bought the abandoned mansion that the two were forced to separate that night, and spent 2 years to convert it into a dream mansion, Ellie happened to see the advertiser who sold the house in the newspaper, and immediately left her fiancé to rush back to Shuixi Town to meet the lover.
Ellie and Noah reunited for many years, the thunder hooked the earth fire, in the classic rain kissing, lake rafting scene, decided to live for herself and Noah to stay old; at this time the old woman suddenly remembered that this is her own love autobiography, and the reader is the beloved Noah, it turned out that the two had agreed that as long as Noah read the love story in the book, Ellie would get rid of the memory barrier of dementia and remember the love of her life.
When Ellie wakes up, she doesn't want to forget her lover again, and Noah promises, "I think our love can do anything we want it to" (I think our love can do anything we want it to), and the two died hand in hand.
Rich families are bound to the shackles of family background, obsessive poor boys stay alone in their hometowns to wait for The Iraqis, the reckless meteor love between men and women of different classes, every scene of hot love, every heartbreak, slow dance on the street, passion in the rain, all tightly grip the audience's hearts, which is the reason why "Love Notebook" is a classic romantic love movie.
This Hollywood-style love packaging method is surprisingly clever, Noah's suicide confession on the Ferris wheel, the two lying on the road guessing the train, ice cream licking each other's faces, wet in the rain, giving up the conformist fiancé (and gun friends) for love, etc., all of which make people feel that the crew has set up an expert and scholar advisory group to conduct in-depth interviews with various couples that stimulate hormones, and only then did they shoot such a passionate summer love affair between Noah and Ellie.
Faced with the departure of his beloved, Noah chooses to go to war but loses his best friend Fen (Kevin Connolly), and after retiring from the army, he faces the sudden death of his father, and it seems that only by rebuilding the house with Ellie's most beautiful memories can Noah find the meaning of living.
Surprised to learn of Noah's current situation, Ellie, leaving the intimate, motivated and golden fiancé Hammond (James Madden) to kill back to Water Creek Town, after a burst of water and milk, taking the yin and yang, shocked to feel that only in front of Noah can be herself, it is really a long live of love, romantic invincible twist plot!
Leaving aside the very romantic and beautiful imagination of love in the first half of this play, Ellie's mother (played by Joan Allen) finally confessed her true love, it turned out that she had also fallen in love with a reckless husband who should not be loved, and she categorically chose the future door to her husband, in addition to explaining why she wanted to stop Ellie from interacting with Noah, but also reminding those who gave up and regret in their hearts in the past, which is the experience of accumulating our current appearance bit by bit.
The bridge between the old woman Ellie (Gina Rowlands) and the infatuated elder Noah (James Kona, R.I.P.) moved me even more, and the love story written by Ellie before the dementia promised that as long as Noah reads it to her, even if the dementia will recall everything between the two of them, it is even more precious than the youthful love of dry firewood, and loving each other with the rest of his life.
Through the memories and echoes of the past and the present, expounding the different stages of love between Noah and Ellie, the passage of time, and the trickle of dependence on each other in their old age, "Love Notebook" is really a romantic movie that touches the heartstrings of different ages.
Leaving nothing alone and leaving together may be the best ending of feelings.
Generally speaking, "Love Notebook" is definitely the best work of romantic movies, male handsome women, passionate love, love and killing of each other, the beginning and end of the marriage of romance as water to drink, but unfortunately the little brother I have long been overwhelmed by social reality, this fairy tale-like love, I am afraid that only in the dream can be found.