Release Date: 25 June 2004
Brief Synopsis
The movie focuses on an old man reading a story to an old woman in a nursing home. The story he reads follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun, who meet one evening at a carnival. But they are separated by Allie's parents who disapprove of Noah's un-wealthy family, and move Allie away. After waiting for Noah to write her for several years, Allie meets and gets engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. Allie, then, with her love for Noah still alive, stops by Noah's 200-year-old home that he restored for her, "to see if he's okay". It is evident that they still have feelings for each other, and Allie has to choose between her fiancé and her first love.
The movie focuses on an old man reading a story to an old woman in a nursing home. The story he reads follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun, who meet one evening at a carnival. But they are separated by Allie's parents who disapprove of Noah's un-wealthy family, and move Allie away. After waiting for Noah to write her for several years, Allie meets and gets engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. Allie, then, with her love for Noah still alive, stops by Noah's 200-year-old home that he restored for her, "to see if he's okay". It is evident that they still have feelings for each other, and Allie has to choose between her fiancé and her first love.
It opens with the piano playing lightly showing peacefulness and this is continued on to the black screen fading into an establishing shot of the sunset over the sea. The image has an orange glow to it giving it warmth with the music. The image then changes to a close up of the sunset with a man rowing; this could represent a number of things including either wanting to get away or peacefulness and happiness with the soft glow of the sky or even loneliness and sadness. I then goes onto the third shot of the man in the sunset which is a tracking from the mans back. It continues on to a variety of shots of the man with a seamless flow. Although we have seen the rower he is very dark against the orange sky meaning we haven’t actually seen the character in detail yet. Flowing on from the shots of the sunset there is a steady shot of white birds flying over the sea, this then leads us to think that the film is going to show happiness and freedom. Then everything is put together, the rower in the sea, the white birds flying and a white house. This sets the location of the film although we still don’t know a lot. We then meet the first character properly as it goes from an over the shoulder shot to a face on shot of an old women looking out the window on her own. The first words which are said in the film are from a nurse who comes into the women’s room telling her it’s time to get ready for bed, this tells us that by the women looking out the window maybe it is freedom and happiness that she wants. We then meet the second main character looking into a mirror with a voice over of him talking about himself. This is a very clever way of letting the audience in on what the character is feeling. The opening of this film doesn’t let us in on a lot and we don’t know a lot yet, this gives me the impression that this film will take a while to get into to understand the whole plot.
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