Watched The Notebook last night, tickets courtesy of a friend who got free tickets for the press screening.
The movie was ok….it’s based on the novel of the same title by Nicholas Sparks. That book was a bestseller couple of years back. My 100-acre-wood group were so enthralled by it that I think all of us, except VanTan has a copy of it lying on our bookshelves.
A romance novel, but not like those along the lines of those tacky and cheesy ones, it centres around the love between a rich Southern belle and a working class lad. Well yeah, very typical rich-girl-poor-boy story. It’s set in the 1940s, and you know the thing–Parental objection, they separate, girl find new guy after a number of years, but eventually finds her way back to her first love.
Maybe I’m just jaded, but I felt that some of the lines in the film were rather tacky and cliched. Frankly, I enjoyed the book more…I remember that it seemed to touch me more. I suppose a few years back, I was younger and less cynical?
The film is nothing ground-breaking or earth-shattering, but it’s watchable. Watch it to renew your belief that love runs through the course of time, and that the line “I’ll stand by you in sickness and in health” uttered during marriage vows stands true.
By the end of the movie, there were many wet eyes (mostly belonging to the women) in the cinema. My friend’s eyes were moist with tears too. As for me, the only reason why I was sniffling was because I was still sick with the flu I had come down with on the flight back from Beijing.
Strictly for the die-hard romantics.
And oh, on a bimbotic note (for the women), watch out for the clothes the female protagonist dons! Her clothes of the 1940s fashion are ssssooooo gorgeous and classy!