0 Movie Review: Eat, Pray, Love

Eat, Pray, Love the movie was a great adaptation of the book written by Elizabeth Gilbert.  It tells a story about a woman that leaves her New York City lifestyle to  travel around the globe to Italy, India, and Bali in search of everything.  Julia Roberts brings the character of Liz to life as we watch her transform from sad to happy by the end of the movie.  It is an intimate story of one woman's quest to find pleasure, peace, and love on a year of self discovery.

While the theater seats were occupied by majority females; I wouldn't necessarily describe this movie as a typical Julia Roberts film.  The beginning of the movie starts with Liz being very sad and confused about her life.  When she first arrives in Italy, she is majorly coping with a horrible breakup and her character is battling depression.  We see a lonely woman that finds comfort in food.  Soon, she meets new Italian friends and enjoys the essence of the city.  By the end of her stay in Italy, she starts to find healing and is ready for the next segment of her adventure.  Her stay in the Indian ashram is probably the most difficult portion of her journey for self-discovery because she has to spend a lot of time dealing with her mind.  The film did not go too deep into spirituality or her views on God but it did show the difficulty of clearing out space in one's mind to find peace.  The last leg of her journey was in Bali, and here Liz finds the balance between pleasure and peace.  By chance, she also discovers what it means to love again. 

I enjoyed this film but I didn't walk away in love with it.  I think the reason I wasn't in love with the movie is it was a rather sad film.  That doesn't make it bad, but right now I don't want to watch anything sad.  I want to be swept into a fantasy land of happiness when I go to the movies. It was a beautiful movie that was a cross between a Food Network and Travel Channel film.  I, like many others who saw it, want to travel more after seeing this movie.  Julia Roberts did a great job portraying her character and it was a great version of the book.  They used some of the exact lines from the book, which I thought was great.  All in all, it was a good movie that made the viewer ponder their own lives and that continual search for peace and happiness.

Till next time, let your light shine!

Blessings, christen

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