Dorathen
Better Late Then Never
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Best movie ever!
Odelecol
Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
enabeshello-57896
I was 18 years old when I read the book and watched the movie and now I see the reason why I liked it. It did have a certain impact on me since I was in a turning point of life myself. Surely I didn't follow any of Elizabeth's advises on self discovering and stuff like this. I just found the idea of having a journey like she did, enchanting.
To me it felt like a sort of an adventure in discovering new lands and experiencing different ways of living and enjoying life. Liz had everything: money, good job position, friends, so she seems in a certain point fed up and just quits the job, withdraws the money, breaks up with her husband, hurts everyone around blaming them for her issues and travels. She has the opportunity to escape like that and go to a 'self-discovery' journey which for me it appeared to be 'leave everyone you cared about in your country and get other friends who pat your back constantly and eventually get a new boyfriend.' Unlike Liz there are people out there who instead of escaping, they deal with their own issues perfectly.
Lastly, this work is worthless besides the travel destinations.
hoxjennifer
A book like "Eat Pray Love" is not easy to make a screenplay out of, and I understand that in evaluating this adaptation. However, there are so many nuances to the book, that I felt were important and were not properly captured in the film adaptation. At face value, watching this movie, all you really see is a spoiled, 30-something year old woman, who has everything, but her husband doesn't excite her anymore and then boom she leaves him after he says he wants a master's degree and that's not what she wants anymore.Then she proceeds on a journey of binge-eating, praying(ish), and then oh, dare I say, it, she finds another man (and a Brazilian man, nonetheless oh lala)...This barely scratches the surface of the book.In the book, Elizabeth Gilbert details her struggle with depression, with realizing that she might have everything, but at the same time it doesn't make her happy. The book goes more into depth about her time in Italy, even her little mini adventure to Sicily. In India, where she finds herself through prayer, admittedly, this section does seem to be more of a never-ending stream of consciousness than the other sections, but nonetheless, there is a rhyme to the reason. And lastly, in Bali, we see Liz really teeter on the fence about whether she wants a new relationship or not, and when she goes for it, how much she immerses herself in it.I don't expect for a movie adaptation to capture all of the essence of the book, it's not possible. However, this movie adaptation didn't even meet the threshold minimum in my standard. Without reading the book, you would just think that Liz Gilbert is a superficial privileged white woman not pleased with her current romance, so she throws herself into the next one. Eat Pray Love isn't about that. I encourage people who have only watched the movie to read the book - at the least you'll gain a better understanding of Liz's character through the book than you did through the movie.
dereuff
All that kept this film from receiving a less than zero score were (some) sincere, moving performances, Ms. Roberts' not being one of them. A waste of time, effort, film stock, cinematography, mega-money...you name it, it has nothing going for it. Sorry. All movie-making is exploitation, but this one pushes the envelope. Cheap sentiment, manipulation, film-school tricks: ugh. Don't waste your time. Unless, of course, you like spending hours of your life in a colorful haze with nothing to show for it after, not even thought-provoking questions (other than "why did I do this to myself??) about life, love, friendship, can I afford to go to Italy this summer, etc., etc. Watching this film is like being force-fed "no-cal" chocolate mousse.
anahita777
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...
