Eat Pray Love (2010)

Fresh and Exciting

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

It is a human drama and romance. I like this story but I think some people do not. Liz is a main character. A lot of people, especially women, can understand Liz's feeling and sympathize with her. She think about her life and her love. After she breaks up with her boyfriend, she decides to start traveling the world. She meets a lot of people and does a lot of things. I think her traveling is very good. A lot of people would like to travel like her when they come up to some problems. However, in the real life, it is difficult. We have to go to school or work and earn money. Therefore I think some audience can't sympathize with the story. If I have a chance to get time and can travel, I want to go travel all over the world like Liz.

In Europe we've heard about this movie and the respective "book-diary" now, in 2016. That says a lot. Elizabeth Gilbert is such a phony that I felt nauseated while trying to read her pages. I've never read something so low (because I reject the USA trash genre "eat pray love"). Well, in a few words: Liz Gilbert preaches about silence, humbleness, searching and finding God, blah, blah, while she makes a fortune out of her lies. She saw blue lights, she met God, she lost God, she suffered, tormented, she "found her word" (OMG!). I could have given her a word to describe her (something similar to what she gave to Rome!): shite. Page by page of shite. But, Gilbert is rich and famous, men cried over her legs, women over her words, so what a hell? She is a smart American woman who knows what she wants and goes for it. God is another story, elsewhere, waiting for when time will come, simply to have a "word". In behalf of Lizabeth Gilbert, I apologies to India, to Mahabharata and Ramayana, Upanishads,to the true believers, who silently pray for the Earth, thinking: "forgive her, Lord, for she does not know what she does".

I've watched this so many times over years. It's been the first movie that would come to mind whenever I've felt down about anything, and the first movie I'd recommend watching for girls' nights or if a friend needed any sort of reassuring that things would turn out okay. Disclaimers: I've never reviewed a movie before, and do not identify as a hyper- feminist crazy person or a film buff. When I checked the reviews I was very surprised. Particularly interesting was the ever-growing list that claims that 50% of people will see Eat, Pray Love as happy journey to self discovery, while the other 50, the enlightened bunch, are appalled at the way it gives a hateful woman power to overturn the life of anybody she encounters, simply because she is "pretty and rich." If you are reading these reviews, and are in the camp that anticipates the deterioration of American society as linked to this sort of twisted female empowerment, chances are you have been discouraged from seeing this movie. If I had read them before ever watching it, I would have shut my screen as well. Don't. Give it a chance. While I can see why Liz would be condemned for her immaturity in her early 40's, this movie obviously doesn't attempt to blanket that at all. In fact, this is the whole point. It's giving a woman who should be at a point of self-awareness and mental clarity a second chance to create something without totally breaking the life, childless at least, of the man she married and just cannot seem to feel herself growing with. A rather far-fetched, idealistic tale, the point of this long romantic adventure, thick with detail great acting by ALL, is simple. She is talking about moving to expensive places for work from the very start. Her character wants adventure and "balance," and the life she has at the beginning, with the person she's convinced herself to "end up with" doesn't grant her that. Why not save everyone the pain and start over while she can? Why not be selfish if it's this productive, instead of continuing to poison the collective atmosphere- we only get one life, as far as we know, at least.She understands that she can't create happiness for anyone when she herself is unhappy, and we see that through until the very end. The cast list was beautifully chosen- anyone else as Liz would potentially have botched the role, but Julia Roberts executes it perfectly- she's impossible to dislike, EVEN here.So what, Italy is portrayed as clean and idealistic? Again, that is the point. The target audience would see it this way, and feel compelled to travel and explore and change and grow and thrive. This is not a movie for the happily married thirty-something. It's geared at people are are still trying to find a happy medium, a purpose and a "word." You won't like this movie if you're avoiding/don't feel the need to find reasons to question and better your life. I guess I'm one of the (lucky? unlucky?) 50% who still do.

I saw so many bad comments that I felt obliged to write a comment. Most of the people think that you have no right to feel unhappy or not yourself when you have a husband and a house and a good job... when you fit in the norm of "successful people" ! Most of the comments I saw were : Selfish girl ! why ? If you want to love others, and it's not a stupid quote, you really should know a little yourself and love yourself as you are... Otherwise, when you are unable to know the meaning of love toward yourself, you can't share it !Many people are depressed and they even feel guilty and go to their psychologist to find out why they feel so empty while they have everything other people want to have ! and here we are, in a society that most of the people are depressed ! This is not the real life for many people. You feel empty as she said, she doesn't enjoy little things of life, she doesn't enjoy eating, she take care of what she eats to keep a nice body that fit in the "norms" of the society she lives in. So she try to find herself and once she found herself and enjoy little things, she is scared that someone come and take all this out of her !This movie is about learning to love yourself, what really moves you, what is deep inside you, forgive yourself and accept your defects and fears...I really didn't expect to see such a movie with Julia Roberts. I didn't expect that it could moves me on. I didn't even expect that it could wake me up at some point. I maybe found the eating part too long but at the end you understand why... I wouldn't say the picture was perfect, but as the movie teach you, nothing is perfect and nobody should look for it, just to feel things with your heart ! This movie, really, opened my eyes again and it was perfect at a moment that you are in a process to leave everything you have to start a new life that is really for you...