Like most movies that span many decades, chapters of The Notebook seem scrunched together. The war, in particular, passes in a flash.
It is as a nurse's aide that Allie meets Lon (James Marsden), a dashing, seriously injured soldier from a wealthy Southern family. Once recovered, he courts Allie aggressively and, just when the beautiful couple are on the verge of marrying and becoming the toast of Charleston society, she reads a newspaper article about Noah's architectural restoration and promptly faints. A reunion is in order.
For a movie that might have plunged full-scale into bathos, The Notebook tries to remain restrained.
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