Soulmates

I am one of those cheesy, hopeless romantic people. I love chick flicks and my favorite movie in the whole wide world is The Notebook (also my favorite book). I have seen it at least 15 times and I still start to tear up at the rain scene, when Allie and Noah reunite. I cannot think of a more romantic movie scene that just pulls at your heart. It follows the romantic thought process of listening to our feelings over reason and fact. Allie is engaged to another man, but she still decides to kiss Noah after he says, "I wrote you 365 letters. I wrote you everyday for a year. It wasn't over, it still isn't over." I am completely against cheating, I find it to be one of the most awful things that anyone could ever do, but this line and scene make me feel like it's okay for Allie to fall in love with him again. She has to choose him because he loves her so incredibly much and he hasn't given up on her after all of this time. This movie gave me a strange sense of hope. It made me feel like there is a person out there for me, a soul mate because that is what Noah and Allie are.

This scene constructs the perfect romantic structure of feeling. It displays forbidden love in a way of that similar to Romeo and Juliet. Noah is a poor working class male and Allie is a rich, highly educated women. It also displays an American cultural ideal of finding that one person to spend the rest of your life with, finding your soul mate. People of different cultures probably won't respond so strongly to such a romantic love scene because love isn't something of importance. In American culture, however, love is everything. Arranged marriages are viewed as strange because we can't understand how you can promise your life to somebody that you don't love. We fall in love and than get married, not vice versa. So my American culture structures my cheesy, romantic feelings toward the Notebook.