“Eat Pray Love” is a loooooong drama perfect for those nights you are feeling sorry for yourself and just want to wallow in the sorrow. This epic drama has such stars such as Julia Roberts as Liz Gilbert, Richard Jenkins as Richard, Billy Crudup as Stephen, James Franco as David and Javier Bardem as Felipe and was directed by Mr. Ryan Murphy. The movie is based on a book by the same name and is rated PG-13 for brief strong language, some sexual references and “male rear nudity.”
The main idea is that this tall blond “happy” woman by the name of Liz Gilbert is working her life away as a writer in New York and one day has an epiphany. She ditches out on her marriage and a love a fair to spend a year abrod living in Italy, India and Bali in search of finding herself and in turn God.
After the hour-long prologue, Liz finally begins her journey in the slums of Italy. The room she’s staying in is held up by scaffolding, has several layers of wallpaper all flaking off, and requires stove-heated water to bathe with. She goes out and eats every kind of stereotypical Italian food imaginable and along the way she meets a wide variety of people and finishes off her stay with a big American style Thanksgiving. She takes away from Italy of course a very important lesson that I will let you all discover for yourself.
Her next stop on this time strenuous journey is India where she meets a tall, bearded, glasses wielding old man by the name of Richard (Richard Jenkins). We first meet Richard when he sits next to Liz to eat and says something along the lines of “We have mosquitos so big in Texas they can stand flat footed and screw a chicken.” With his Texan humor and lack of an internal censor, Richard helps Liz to make another life changing realization.
Last stop is Bali. In Bali she revisits her spiritual advisor Ketut (Hadi Subiyanto) who is a master of truism. Ketut helps her to discover herself in a way that she has refused to realize for so long allowing her to love once again.
The scenery throughout the movie is very eclectic in that it allows the viewer to compare and contrast the hustle and bustle of New York where everyone has a place to be, Italy where they have perfected the art of doing nothing, India where you see a culture truly devout to worship, and Bali where people learn to live both for themselves and for the greater being. Through the scenery change we can also see different personalities of Liz leading up to her discovering herself.
All in all this was a good movie despite the fact that it seems as if it will never end. It depicts an emotional journey that we all long to take but are afraid to in fear of breaking our routine we have become so accustomed to. I recommend waiting for a rainy day, getting a qt of your favorite ice cream, and making yourself a nice cozy spot for this one.
4 out of 5
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