![]() (Note to any straight men who might be reading this: If you have to peer-pressure her into going out with you while you’re literally hanging from a rickety carnival ride, that may not be “enthusiastic consent.”) Allie (McAdams) won’t ride the Ferris wheel with Noah, so he literally climbs the Ferris wheel to ask her out while she’s riding with another guy, which is exactly the kind of terrifying macho behavior that rom-coms are so good at normalizing. The story concerns Noah and Allie, two 1940s-era cuties who meet at a carnival while Noah (Gosling) is wearing a newsboy cap so gigantic that I can’t restrain myself from yelling “NEWSBOY CAP!” in every scene it’s in. We meet a charming older man named Duke at an assisted-living facility, who shows up to read to a confused and nervous-seeming older woman.Didn’t predict this movie being rewatched in 2020 under the looming specter of total climate disaster, did you, Nicholas Sparks? Someone is canoeing under a very red sky, which is presumably supposed to be scenic and moody, but just makes me think of the West Coast fires. ![]() (To be honest, the only thing I remembered about this movie at first was their kiss in the rain, so it was a true deep-dive into early-aughts film lore.) (Sorry, I’m single.)Īs much as the formulaic twists and turns of rom-coms can make my eyes roll, I can’t seem to help myself from watching them compulsively and dissolving into tears upon their often-predictable conclusion on that note, I present a list of everything I thought while revisiting the 2004 Ryan Gosling/Rachel McAdams classic, The Notebook. From Never Been Kissed to He’s Just Not That Into You, rom-coms-the more saccharine and implausible the better-allow us to escape our current reality and relax into the warmth of a world in which Prince Charming shows up to kiss you in front of all your classmates, or colleagues, or whichever group of people you’re relegating to the role of “audience” in your inherently self-involved love story. ![]() As summer turns to fall and the COVID-19 pandemic continues to haunt us, the power of the romantic comedy has never been more obvious.
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