"It wasn't over - it still isn't over"
A man tells the story of a young couple who struggle through the times as rich daughter and a poor mill worker some 50 or 60 years ago. Two people from different walks of life who meet at a carnival in the 1940's and spend next bulk of years fighting for love or hiding from it. The story of this couple is relayed back from an elderly man to an old lady in a nursing home via a notebook. As the young couple Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams are magnetic while screen legends James Garner and Gena Rowlands are heartbreaking as the older couple. Just try not to cry while watching this flick based on Nicholas Spark's novel. It's a tearjerker for sure, but there's an underlying sentimentality that rings true. What really does us in is the juxtaposition of Noah and Allie's story of young love set against the modern reality of Allie's deteriorating health. This film has all the elements of great romance. The angst, crazy young love, lost love, found love and true love in old age. It's a movie that truly reinvigorates ones belief that love is worth living for and dying for.
