Borrowing the story of the movie "The Notebook"

“The last message from your lover” .. Decoration, clothes and hairstyles dominate romance

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If you are in a mood looking for films that are different from what you used to watch, a mood that distances you from repeated horror, and from action mixed with silly comedy, or let's call it a mood for films that are no longer made in these times.

We are not in the nineties and we are not in the first decade of the millennium, when films like these occupied theaters, which reflects the great change that has occurred in cinema and public taste in the past 10 years because of “Netflix”!

If you're in the mood for a cliched romantic drama, as in the '60s and '70s soap operas, you'll find The Last Letter From Your Lover, the cliched title of a Netflix original movie, not without vulgarity but very acceptable in this case. moods.

All the elements of the Sop Opera series, which are intended in the previous paragraph, are present: amnesia, hidden or lost love letters that appear to the mistress, a character who does not recognize romance and finds herself fascinated by the purity of pure love, the atmosphere and clothing of the sixties adorning the shots, a heroine of the utmost beauty, bewildered Between her rich husband who is preoccupied with her, and her lover who promises her a love after which she will never find love!

There are two love stories in this film based on Jojo Moyes' novel of the same title.

In the present day, we see Ellie (Felisty Jones), a journalist who does not recognize romance, assigned to write about a deceased editor, who must first overcome the obstacle before her, an unfriendly archivist named Rory (Nabhan Radwan), in order to reach the archives of the deceased editor's belongings, and there. You find a group of love letters addressed to a person with the letter J, sent by a person under the pseudonym "Bot".

Ellie reads the letters and the flashbacks begin with the 1965 story of J.O. Jennifer Stirling (Shailene Woodley), a Velvet girl who spends the summer with her husband, Lawrence (Joe Alwyn) on the French Riviera.

A foreign newspaper reporter, Anthony O'Hare (Callum Turner), arrives to write a piece on Lawrence.

Lawrence goes on a surprise business trip and leaves his wife alone with the entourage. Jennifer starts Anthony's reporter with her first letter, while he calls himself Bout, and the two develop a romantic relationship.

There are two types of vulgarity, according to the experience of the writer of these lines. The first is the vulgarity of the seventies series such as “Dallas” and “Notes Landing”, and it is acceptable to a large extent even for those who think themselves immune to vulgarity!

It is acceptable because it laid down the rules of vulgarity on which the generations of the seventies and eighties were brought up.

And then there's the unbearable vulgarity that author Nicholas Sparks, who Hollywood quoted from the '90s into the last decade mastered about, the kind of vulgarity that makes the dungeon viewer curse the moment he decides to watch the movie!

This film borrows elements of the two mentioned vulgarities and presents them plausibly in the second story, which takes place in the letters of love, but fails completely in the first story as its vulgarity is never convincing for the immune viewer.

Thus we have two intertwined stories, 56 years apart, and the film moves between them as one of them evolves.

Ellie and Rory's relationship arises as they search for lost letters and what happened to their '60s lovers.

It's as if we're watching another version, not to say updated, of the 2004 movie The Notebook, based on a Nicholas Sparks novel.

The repetition in the film serves a single purpose, which is to create a parallel or reflection of the events of the story of the letters on the relationship of Eli and Rory.

But this causes a major flaw in the film, as it puts it in a mold that presents two exactly similar stories without paying attention to the details of the small differences between them, for example, the two stories begin with an unreasonable enmity, except that the love stories that begin with a disagreement are more exciting than those that begin normally, the characters The four have had bad experiences in previous relationships, the four do not admit it and the four doubt that they will ever fall in love again.

The two stories contain the scene of the two lovers dancing in a nightclub, which leads them to spend the night together in the pose of husbands, but what the director of the film, Augustin Frizzell, did not notice, that the two stories and the four characters are not interesting enough, they are not bad but we don't care much about them, Especially Ellie and Rory, because the romance in the letters story is much stronger than what is happening at the moment and completely overwhelms it, and this causes a major imbalance in the tone and balance of the film.

The love letters are extremely romantic, but they are not qualitative. The decorations, the clothes, and Woodley's hairstyle are wonderful, to the point of stealing the viewer's attention about what the characters in the second story are saying or doing. Woodley's hairstyles and clothes in general are inspired by the elegance of the late first lady of the White House, Jackie Kennedy.

There is one point worth pondering about in this film, which is its suggestive criticism of our world without the intimacy of handwritten messages. Suddenly emotional warmth, and the viewer feels a desire to go back to the good past.

• If you are in the mood for a cliched romantic drama, as in the soap operas of the sixties and seventies, you will find this movie.

• What the film director did not notice is that the two stories and the four characters are not interesting enough.

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