Never forget : the cult love story of Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling
If there’s one film we’ll remember from Nick Cassavetes’ directorial career, it’s this one Never forget (2004)title The notebook in the VO. A romantic drama adapted from the novel The pages of our love (1996) by Nicholas Sparks, which had already achieved great success before this adaptation. However, his story reached a wider audience thanks to the film, which was also made Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams real stars.
Never forget begins in a retirement home where an elderly man reads the same book every day to his wife suffering from senile dementia. A book that tells the story of Noah Calhoun and Allie Hamilton, young people who lived in the 1930s and who fell in love. However, having different origins, their passionate love it can only last one summer before they part ways. They will meet again years later and will do everything to resume their relationship.
Romantic film par excellence, carried forward by an attractive couple, Never forget it also highlights the issue of differences in the context of class segregation. Allie comes from a wealthy background, while Noah is a simple worker when they meet. But the audience will remember above all the love story between the two characters, and in particular an iconic kiss between Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling. The same one that was awarded in 2005 at MTV Movie Awards and which the two performers, as a couple for two years, then performed again on stage.
This kiss has become so cult that, during the 2022 World Cup, the celebration of Kylian Mbappé with Olivier Giroud a goal in the quarter-finals was associated on social networks with this same scene.
A beautiful and tragic ending, different on Netflix
Obviously this has a strong impact Never forget, this is his revelation (which we can quickly guess). Little by little we understand that Noah and Allie’s story is actually that of the old couple in the retirement home. The man is in fact reading his wife’s notebook, who, after learning of her illness, has made a decision write their story so they can remember it. There is therefore a real tragic element in the idea of seeing Noah, as he grows older, tell his wife about his past every day. The latter will thus be able to remember it at certain moments, before forgetting it again.
The ending is therefore heartbreaking, but fitting, as the couple ends take your last breath in each other’s arms… The kind of final sequence that leaves audiences teary-eyed. Therefore, it would be unthinkable to propose an alternative ending. This, however, is what happened in 2019 in Great Britain Netflix UK. The platform had published a version of Never forget ending with Noah and Allie are alive and well, watching the birds fly away together. Subscribers had logically cried foul, but it wasn’t entirely the fault of the streaming service which explained that they had simply received this version with the alternative ending. Netflix then made the necessary change by inserting the official version of Never forget.
Many things to know…
– We haven’t changed Never Forget
– There is an alternate ending and it was sent to us
– We will solve the problem quickly
– Apparently there are films with different endings?
Below is the original ending:
Source: Cine Serie
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