The Notebook Movie Analysis
Finnley Maier
The Notebook (2004) Film Response
SYNOPSIS: The film tells the love story of a man and a woman named Noah and Allie and the struggled they faced to be together. The film begins by showing an older man reading the story of Noah and Allie from a notebook to an elderly woman. There are three main key events in the film, when Noah and Allie finally reunite and decide to be together back in the 40’s, when Allie becomes lucid and remembers that the story is about her and the man is Noah, and their last moment together before they both pass away. There weren’t many film techniques used to advance the plot, it followed pretty a traditional plotline, the entire film was basically a giant flashback. The film ended with …show more content…
The film doesn’t show Allie’s descent into the disease, or other symptoms. The film didn’t focus on the disorder but rather just used it to explain why she wouldn’t remember their love story, it was more of a plot device by the author. The memory loss is right in line with the diagnostic criteria but all the other symptoms simply weren’t portrayed. I think this film has the impact on viewers by having the possibility of giving a misconception to Alzheimer’s/ Dementia by only showing memory loss and not the numerous other effects. I somewhat believe that viewers would have an accurate sense of the disorder, memory loss is a big part of dementia so in that sense it was correct but the disease is more far reaching than that. Viewers come away from the film sad and in tears from the final scene but because the disorder played a very inconsequential piece of the movie I don’t think they would think much about dementia. If they did notice the disorder they would see its tragedy, but because Allie didn’t display many symptoms and would bounce back into lucidness I think it undermines the truly powerful and detrimental effects that most Alzheimer’s patients
The Notebook (2004) Film Response
SYNOPSIS: The film tells the love story of a man and a woman named Noah and Allie and the struggled they faced to be together. The film begins by showing an older man reading the story of Noah and Allie from a notebook to an elderly woman. There are three main key events in the film, when Noah and Allie finally reunite and decide to be together back in the 40’s, when Allie becomes lucid and remembers that the story is about her and the man is Noah, and their last moment together before they both pass away. There weren’t many film techniques used to advance the plot, it followed pretty a traditional plotline, the entire film was basically a giant flashback. The film ended with …show more content…
The film doesn’t show Allie’s descent into the disease, or other symptoms. The film didn’t focus on the disorder but rather just used it to explain why she wouldn’t remember their love story, it was more of a plot device by the author. The memory loss is right in line with the diagnostic criteria but all the other symptoms simply weren’t portrayed. I think this film has the impact on viewers by having the possibility of giving a misconception to Alzheimer’s/ Dementia by only showing memory loss and not the numerous other effects. I somewhat believe that viewers would have an accurate sense of the disorder, memory loss is a big part of dementia so in that sense it was correct but the disease is more far reaching than that. Viewers come away from the film sad and in tears from the final scene but because the disorder played a very inconsequential piece of the movie I don’t think they would think much about dementia. If they did notice the disorder they would see its tragedy, but because Allie didn’t display many symptoms and would bounce back into lucidness I think it undermines the truly powerful and detrimental effects that most Alzheimer’s patients