The Notebook is a Hollywood endorsement of male coercion, harassment, and glorified unhealthy obsession.
This is one of the most harmful movies I’ve ever seen.
It presents a totally convoluted, selfish, unforgiving relationship as a “great love story” but lacks any actual qualities of what love is. Noah is impatient, refuses to move on, seduces her (twice) in an abandoned house in the woods, threatens to kill himself if she doesn’t date him, obsessively writes a letter every single day to…