So I had this movie and hadn't seen it till now. I read up some reviews on IMDB and it sounded like my kind of a movie.
The movie transcends through time and is told in a very beautiful fashion. About the lives of two lovers who meet when they were 17-18 and talks about how their lives span out. Allie Hamilton, beautifully essayed by Rachel McAdams, is the only daughter of a millionaire who comes to the town of Seabrook to spend her summer break. Noah, played by Ryan Gosling, is a worker at the local log factory. He happens to see Allie at the carnival night and finds himself immediately attracted to her. He pursues her and finally wins her over by getting her to agree on going out with him. He shows her what it is to be really free, to do things because you want to do them, like dancing in the middle of the streets, staring at the stars, going for a boat ride in the moonlight... He takes her around and before they know it, they're madly in love with each other. Full of passion, full of energy, full of life. He takes her to his ancestral home built in the 17th century at a beautiful location just beside the river. He tells her of his plans to redo the house and she tells him exactly what she wants the house to look like. He promises to build it that way for her...
Then enter her parents. They forbid her to see him for all the reasons like his status, his monetary position, etc... She doesn't listen to them and comes to him while he's waiting outside the room overhearing their conversation. He tells her that maybe he should leave and that maybe they're not meant to be together. They fight and he leaves. The next day her parents take her back to the city. Noah writes to her for a year but those letters never reach her, because her mother always keeps them away and doesn't mention a word about them to her. She becomes busy with her life and meets and falls in love with a man. He's perfect for her, her parents love him and he proposes to her in front of everyone and she's over the moon with it.
Meanwhile, Noah's father sells their house and gives the proceeds to Noah so that he can buy their ancestral home and convert it into a house. Noah works hard at it because he believes that it's the only thing that will bring Allie back. He converts the home into a beautiful white house and his photograph appears in the newspaper. Allie happens to see it, and she feels a pang of emotion that draws her to it. She tells her fiance that she needs some time off to go clear some things and she comes to meet Noah.
Their meeting is just as it should've been. Once they both realize how his letters never reached her, and how she had waited for so many years, they shed all their past, their inhibitions and are together. It is then that she realizes how much she had forgotten and let go... She now has to make a choice of whether she wants to stay with Noah or does she want to go back to her fiance. Ultimately she chooses Noah and they lived happily...
Cut to the present where an old man is reading this to an old woman in an old age home of sorts. By the time he finishes the story, the woman has tears in her eyes and she looks at him and says I remember everything now Noah... He has been reading the story to her everyday to help spend those 5 - 10 mins with her when she remembers who she is, what her past was like and so on. It hurts him to see that after that brief a time, she doesn't remember anything and has to be sedated in order to be put to sleep. The movie ends with a beautiful time in the night when the old man walks across the corridor and comes to her, for once she recognizes him and she asks him whether their love will take them away together, he answers that their love will do anything they ask of it. He lies down beside her, holding hands, and they kiss each other good night... They sleep their way into the heavens...
By the end of the movie, I was sobbing and crying... but filled with the beauty of love.
The thing with such movies is, it hurts to watch them alone at times. Because you know you have someone as wonderful in your life, and you want to go and meet that person, hold on to that person for the longest time, and you can't because you're alone watching the movie... Nevertheless it's a beautiful movie. :)
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