FREE ON YOUTUBE The Notebook


Doesn't that fit in well with our difficult times? A film that always believes only in the good and idealizes everything in rich colors.

To the technical aspect; if I now give you the link to YouTube for The Notebook (today, March 26, 2020), you must know that this link will be deleted soon. And then there will be a new link again. The best thing to do is just type in the search bar: The Notebook. And now to the movie: We experience the couple in the spring of their fresh love and in the autumn of their lives. She suffers from Alzheimer's disease, but he believes in her and reads to her daily from her notebook. It tells how they met and what obstacles they encountered on their way to happiness. And in rare, brief moments, she remembers them too. Then she knows who the story from her notebook is about: herself. Everyone who knows an Alzheimer's patient wishes for exactly such moments! The Notebook is wonderfully sentimental. Exactly the kind of film you need when you're feeling bad. Says your video dealer and that's me. Actually, a customer once gave me the tip to buy The Notebook. Her name was Vanessa and she only watched sentimental movies like that. I thought that was good. Allie Nelson and Noah Calhoun are the names of the two people in The Notebook. Gena Rowlands and James Garner embody them as an old couple; Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling as young lovers. In the beginning passion rages, in the end deeper feelings. Actually they come from different worlds. Rich and poor. Allie doubts how this will work out at all and at some point she is even engaged to someone else. Eventually she grows up in a southern mansion in North Carolina and he works in a sawmill. Still, Noah is a poetic person and his father (Sam Shepard) gave him one thing: Noblesse. Noah falls in love at first sight. But Allie's parents are very direct. Noah is "Trash". Alllies mother once loved a worker like Noah. Nevertheless she insists on being happy with Allie's father. Really? With a faint note of regret. What our customer Vanessa likes about The Notebook is that Nick Cassavetes (yes, the son) has made a real tearjerker. A good schmaltzy song! Because The Notebook offers more than just a soap. He finds the way to truthfulness. And the great Gena Rowlands? In the old days, in her husband's movies, she was a nervous, manic person. In this film of her son, she seems completely silent and vulnerable. All this appears in bright colours, reminiscent of the southern dramas of the 50s, idealising the events. When my grandmother could no longer speak in the last years of her life, the doctors said she would not identify us. But my aunt, who was nursing her at home, was sure that Grandma recognized her shortly before she died. For a brief moment. Just like in The Notebook.