8 Movie Grand Gestures That Are Awkward In Real Life

A breakup for the better

Do you remember in “The Notebook” when Noah dumps Allie because she gets into Sarah Lawrence and he wants to make sure she goes, so she can have a career? And then five years later they’re still in love? First off, probably something like 1000 percent of high school couples who break up saying they’ll “find each other again” go on to sleep with/date 20 other people in college and forget all about their high school love. So there’s that. But then, also, Noah wrote Allie letters for a year that she did not respond to (as far as he knew) and he persisted in building her a house. He built a house for a woman he hadn’t heard from in years, who did not ask for this house. It’s all so romantic in the movie but in real life, if you were Allie, you’d be off having the time of your life in college, experimenting with your sexuality. And you’d be a bit creeped out to hear your high school love was building you a house, when you hadn’t spoken…in years.