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Today, I will be live tweeting my experience watching Eat Pray Love for the first time. I've heard very mixed reviews on this movie so we'll see how this goes. #tortoiseviewings
"having a baby is like getting a tattoo on your face" 6 minutes in this is already the best line.
the main character and her husband are listening to Fleetwood Mac's Dreams...I don't think their marriage is going to last
Husband: "I don't want to go to Aruba"
Wife "I don't want to be married"
big oof. But I called it.
Wife "I don't want to be married"
big oof. But I called it.
Her new boyfriend just stole a street performer's ukulele and started singing to her?
I'm so confused with this movie. I thought we were 40 minutes in an it's only been 22 minutes. The cinematography is so jarring and the plot doesn't make any sense.
Ok, she's finally in Italy and she has a tutor to learn Italian. He said "always be polite to yourself when you're learning something new". I like that. Very good advice.
Right after that very nice line there was a montage of her eating spaghetti. I did not want to see food fall out of Julia Robert's mouth thank you
Ok, i had to take a break from this, but i'm determined to get through it. This movie is confusing and hard to watch. Literally. The cinematography choices are so weird.
I get that this is a movie about travel and finding yourself (which i think has SOME merit). But it also uses culture as a plot device to show the main characters growth.
Every country she's been in (so far Italy and India), it others the culture she's trying to experience while simultaneously attempting to portray it as better than her and something that she should aspire to be like.
This movie was based off of a memoir. I can't comment on the book, but this movie is trying to stuff that entire book into 2.5 hours and it's just not working.
The result of this is a poorly constructed narrative that is confusing and only focusing on the fact that she can't find a good boyfriend/husband.
She's trying to "find herself" and is using her experience in a new culture to prove how much she is growing. Like the movie is measuring her growth based on her interaction with the cultures she visits.
I like traveling and i think that traveling can open your eyes and even help you grow as a person. But the way that they position her makes it seem that it is the people in the countries job to help enlighten her, and that's the problem with this movie.
This is the problem i have with a lot of stories like this. Maybe this did happen in the novel, and maybe this did happen in real life to the author. But make a movie that doesn't reduce a culture down to a plot device for the growth of your main character
BUT if you want to see some wacky camera angles this is the movie for you
If you want to hear more of my thoughts about this movie I will be posting on my blog about it soon and will add a link to the post in this thread.
