Cheating? pphfff.. Who Cares? It's "True Love".

Alright girls, this one’s for you (and all the boyfriends who have ever been “Notebooked”). Now, I am really NOT one for sappy movies, but this love story sucked me in when I was on a Nicholas Sparks fascination in like, eighth grade and read everything he ever wrote (because the book is always better). This movie made girls all over America swoon for Ryan Gosling’s character Noah (and Ryan himself) who has got to be the most romantic man on the planet (if only he were real). The ever popular sexy-kiss-in-the-rain scene comes after a seven-year pining (it’s fourteen in the book) for his high school sweetheart Allie (Rachel McAdams) who’s now engaged. When she comes back to their hometown (right before her wedding) to see the house Noah basically built for her, they fall passionately back-in-love and now Allie has a “tough” choice to make (yea, right). Watch the whole scene.

It is interesting that even though she is cheating on the man who has only ever treated her right, the audience’s investment in the characters make them root for her to cheat on him, because with Noah, its “true love” (*sigh*).


So after the romantic kiss, they turn into primal sexual beings who rip off each others clothes and take their signature leap-on-top-of-him pose as their wet, naked bodies bash against walls and stairs to get to the bedroom (which was much better than the first time they attempted to have sex in high school and got interrupted, yelled at, and forbid to see each other). They finally make it to the bedroom, and apparently taking off pantyhose is hot. Who knew.

The one thing keeping this scene classy is that the only thing Allie is wearing is a string of pearls. The lighting is dark, the music is cheesy (what…do I hear flutes?) and her line is pretty laughable; “You’ve gotta be kiddin’ me. All this time that’s what I’ve been missin’? Let’s do it again”. Then, this sex scene ends with …another sex scene! And he’s actually getting so much sex that he needs food to “regain his strength”. That is, until his girlfriend knocks on the door, and, as realistic as this is, Allie invites her in for tea!

The whole thing is pretty funny, but girls everywhere love this scene, and so, I guess I should too, right? The long involved back-story of these characters make this scene (and all the pent up passion of star-crossed lovers) seem romantic (even though, hey it broke up a marriage, sorry, engagement in the process). But it's not really cheating if it's your one true love, right?

P.S. Notice the picture of the movie vs. the picture on the sidebar – Ryan’s beard was edited out because nobody liked the look. Poor, Ryan.