A story turned into a happy place for many
Conversations about the box office have become especially boring, and the runaway success of big events has had a lot to do with it. Traditionally it was more common to wait for a movie was building interestgrowing or staying on the billboards due to good word of mouth that contrasts with the big but ephemeral premiere of the first weekend.
Of course, the current circumstances are different. Movies are more expensive because you have to make them more bombastic and more eventful, and that puts us in a vicious circle where you have to hit the big time at the beginning or not at all. It can not be anymore fully trust historythat it naturally finds its place, and ends up becoming an enduring classic like ‘Noa’s Diary’.
Something to remember
The romantic film that has become the happy place of many viewers, thus making it one of the reference films in the genre during this century. Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams emerge as stars in this film by Nick Cassavetes, which celebrates 20 years since its release in theaters and can now be seen streaming on Amazon Prime Video and Netflix.
In a nursing home, a woman with signs of dementia receives a daily visit from a man who, accompanied by a notebook, tells her the story of a love that occurred during the 1940s in a town in the South of the United States. There, young Allie and Noah live a passionate romance even though their destinies seem to be going to separate.
The early charisma of Gosling and McAdams, in addition to a palpable chemistry between the two, sells this classic and quite accessible approach that Cassavetes tries to imprint on this story by Nicholas Sparks, which has all the possible corniness and from which the film does not escape altogether. Are These young actors have the most memorable sequencesthose where emotions overflow and the music is at its maximum.
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However, it is part of the story that is still a Trojan horse for the part that, over time, is revealed to be the most interesting in the movie: the portrait of old age through the relationship between the characters of James Garner and Gena Rowlands, who are superb at telegraphing what is happening between their seemingly trivial conversations that are more than a mere device to present the story.
It is in that part of the story where you can appreciate more delicacy, more nuances and the true sentimentality of this film, which does not always have to resort to amplifying what happens between characters. We are not facing one of the best romantic films in history, or even a story that we will always have alive in our hearts, but it is true that ‘Noa’s Diary’ maintains a certain effectiveness that justifies its becoming a comfortable place to return to for many people who, at some point, need just that.
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