Genre: Romantic
While many loved the movie The Notebook by Nicholas Spark (same author for The Lucky One), I actually prefer this film.
It was sweet, romantic and had a "best case scenario" ending, everything I had hoped for to be in a romantic movie. Both leads were stunning, Zac Efron, needs no introduction, and Taylor Schilling was drop dead gorgeous. The chemistry was realistic and most of the credit of this movie's success surely goes to Zac Efron.
Zac Efron is a marine who manages to escape death because he went to pick up a photo of a lady (Taylor Schilling) when he was on a mission in Iraq. Unknowing to him, the spot where he stood was bombed, and ever since that day, he believed that the lady was his guardian angel. [the synopsis is shown in the trailer]
After finally coming out of the army, he manages to find her, but was unable to tell her the truth behind their meeting. Taking up a job at her training centre for dogs, the both of them gradually develops feelings for each other, but obstacles such a possessive ex-husband and "the truth" keeps them at bay.
Zac excelled in portraying a rather emotionless and uptight person, since he spent a good deal of his life at war, at the same time displaying jaw dropping magnanimosity and character. While it was weird to see a younger guy getting intimate with an older woman on screen (they looked rather mismatched in terms of age), they were both such eye candies it didn't really matter. And in a way, it made sense since it would be too "ideal" for him to pick up a picture of a nice looking younger girl. There are things in life not within our control, and when love comes into the picture, there's definitely no boundaries. Love just happens...
I liked how "real" the movie felt, the cast, the story, the development and the soundtrack. I'm suddenly a Nicholas Spark fan now...
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