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The notebook full movie12/9/2023 ![]() ![]() It’s a remarkable, understated turn from Gosling who, no matter how weird it gets, makes you root for Lars every step of the way. As Lars Lindstrom, a damaged soul whose mother died during childbirth, leaving him with feelings of guilt, detachment, and haphephobia whose father died recently and who lives in his family’s converted garage, Gosling gave us his most eccentric character - a broken young man who simulates a relationship with Bianca, a sex doll he ordered online, because he’s too afraid of forming real, meaningful connections. I’ve said it’s akin to a puppy dog before, but that longing look, one of his eyes slightly lazier than the other, has the power to pierce right through you. These is a woundedness Gosling instills in many (or all) of his characters. Image Credit: NewLine Cinema/Everett Collection ![]() For those who never saw his teenage work in Breaker High or Young Hercules, this was Gosling’s first big comedy swing, and he knocked it out of the park. The look he shoots Carell’s Cal when he unveils his Velcro wallet was rightfully memed to oblivion. While his scenes with Emma Stone are cute, including a drunken re-creation of the Dirty Dancing dance, his two-handed comedy with Carell is top-notch. Gosling is so deadpan hilarious as Jacob Palmer, a pickup artist who goes to the same club every night in a bespoke suit to seduce lonely women, and takes on Cal (Steve Carell), a pathetic, midlife-crisis-suffering, Gap-wearing father who just found out his wife (Julianne Moore) was cheating on him, as a makeover project, that you resent whenever the film strays from his judgmental gaze. The first time Gosling flexed his muscles for comedic effect - just a few weeks prior to doing so IRL, breaking up a fight on the streets of NYC in a sun’s out, guns out tank - was in this ensemble comedy film from Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. ![]()
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