Title: Narration means communicating the story, through choices in how audiences experience the events. Discuss by examining a film of your choice. Essay length: 6 pages (The length does not include...

Analysis of ‘The Notebook’
Abstract
The Notebook is a movie rich in dimensions of observation. It has an amazing visual that takes one back to the 1940’s and adopts various techniques to convey the same. In addition the devices of narration and flashback have been used skilfully to create the lasting effect of sadness and sympathy for the protagonists of the story
Analysis of ‘The Notebook’
The movie ‘The Notebook’ was directed by Nick Cassavetes and released on the 5th of June, 2004. The story revolves around the love story of a young couple in the 1940’s who fall in love quickly and deeply over the period of a few months. However, their family status and other differences do not allow them to be together (Safé, 2018). Eventually they are separated for a period of 14 years, after which they reunite and get together again in spite of the girl’s prior engagement. Even though the couple unite, the story ends on a tragic note 49 years later.
The film ‘The Notebook’ follows an interesting kind of narration where the story begins at the end of the events and are guided back eventually to an even further ending. The viewers see an elderly man reading a story from a ‘notebook’ to an elderly woman. They seem to be in a hospital setting. So the narrator of the story appears to be a man who tells the tale of exotic love between two characters. Through this narration we explore the events of this old man and woman who we learn are actually the two characters in the story.
This flashback narration has been adopted skilfully throughout the movie and we are moved between the past and the present events exploring the lives and emotions of different characters but mainly that of Allie and Noah, the main protagonists of the story.
The focus of the story is the two characters Noah and Allie, their falling in love, separation and then reunion. The great conflict in the story plays an important role in the portrayal of universal truths. Both the characters are faced with difficult choices two times with regards to each other. Their going through all the ordeals while believing in each other’s love creates the particular heightened ending for them- dying together (Hidayat, 2015).
The movie presents two simple characters as protagonists. There is the girl, Allie who is a free-minded fun-loving girl. She isn’t much concerned about the status or wealth of the man she falls in love with. Allie is weak in the...