I quite like the idea of finding out who I am by going to Italy to eat a bunch of pasta. I already know who I am, but I might do that anyway just to make sure.
I actually enjoyed this film in a weird way, but I do agree with almost everything Mark says about it. One thing that really struck me was the fact that in order to do all the stuff she does, you would need to have a hell of a lot of money and free time. Was more a story of a rich person killing time than a lost soul seeking a purpose.
In their defence it is true that in Italy we are all handsome, speak with our hands and eat losts of pasta and all the guys look exactly like Luca Argentero
One of the most disgusting films I have ever seen. It's a view of the world as seen by an American who has never left America. Mark perfectly sums it up with the word 'grotesque'.
errr no not really. She gives off mosy of her stuff in settlement to her ex husband and ventures off with only jer savings and she resigns her job as well.
@@audreyadams9498 Have you read the books? She LEAVES her husband because she just wasn't happy anymore, boohoo. He got all of her money because she walked out on him so she should go eat pasta. She then leaves the man she meets in Bali for another lover post Eat Pray and Love. A cycle for her, leave another long-term lover and then write a book. She is very privileged and has the mentality of her happiness matters more than anything or anyone else. That is some BS. She is a entitled privileged woman who places herself above those around her.
Oh please, just because she was born in a privileged life doesn’t mean that her journey was not a good experience and life changing for her. It’s different obviously for people in other situations, people who cant just travel across the world, but the movie has some good messages. How to get out of a situation that makes you unhappy, to trust your feelings and rely on yourself and follow your dreams. That it’s never to late to do what you want and stop pleasing everyone. To focus on yourself and your spirituality and finally loving yourself again and being stronger than ever. That could also happen without the traveling, but that was her choice of coping. It also shows a very open mind and respect to the culture of others.
I went to work in Italy for a year in 2011 and before going I watched Eat, Pray, Love and The Tourist. Well, let me just say that my experience there was slightly different than what I saw in the movies. I was outraged the Italians didn't invite me to dinner to teach me Italian while feeding me traditional food!
It's easy to go "Find yourself" if you have money enough to take a year off work and live a luxuriant holiday in exotic locations around the world. You want to "Find yourself"? Try and living pay-cheque to pay-cheque week after week and live a good life.
so i started watching this movie just now and then started counting how many times Julia Roberts complains in the script, eventually i got annoyed and bored with the main protagonist and honestly started reflecting on people i knew in my life who are exactly like her. i needed a video that would take the time to nicely critique the absurdity of the film and now i am here laughing my ass everytime Mark says erotic exoticism. thank you for summarizing the rest of the film for me. accurate
I found this film offensive to all my senses and horribly offensive to every nationality stereotyped. It's as though the film was made by someone who had never left the US and had never met anyone from the countries featured in the movie. So they just wrote a script around what they thought Indians and Italians were like. Clearly the writers thought that all Italians are like Super Mario and jump around talking about pizza. It actually made me mildly angry.
I know a girl who is like this woman. Obsessed with going to other countries and transparently adopts their religion and culture and bores me to death about it all.
I love watching Mr Kermode's reviews! Julia Roberts went to Bali to find her Guru in Eat, Pray Love. I come to RU-vid to find my movie guru! Love your reviews Mr Kermode!!
There was much more in the book. The film didn't really plumb the depths, as you'd expect of any feelgood film starring Julia Roberts. Not that I claim great depth for Elizabeth Gilbert, and I don't quite believe everything she wrote, but the book lays out her journey in greater depth and first-person detail.
Towards the end, it feels like he'd been noticing how much the chick was amused (charmed) by his rant, and consequently he kind of veers into gratuitous exuberance... Not only is it a Kermodian rant (which is fine, I love near all of'em), but it's a cranked up, caricatured kermodian rant. Just take a look at how the more you hear the girl laughing, the more the flappy hands manifest themselves.
@oneworldfamily I think that's Justine with the news. I'm always enchanted by how the news and travel ladies effortlessly turn their BBC voice on and off.
I really enjoyed Richard Jenkins in this movie. Because it seems that he’s typecast as an impatient jerk. And in this movie, he really got to act and just share his humanity. Even if I felt that he was kind of doing a Jim Broadbent with that look.
'Eat, love' could be a film where Julia Roberts visits a small bedsit in the North West to find a cure for anorexia..? Javier Bardem could be a bus driver on Route 273 that doesn't stop where she wants and they engage in fisticuffs.
Reverse the gender of the main character and the whole world would really be disgusted with this film. All you'd hear about it would be "Ah, that horrible film about a chauvinistic pig!"
This movie reminds me of "Sex and the City", it is that kind of vibe. At that time there was no Instagram (actually there was but it wasn't wat it is today) and it has the essence of the modern "look at me and my cool life that is not ordinary like yours is" style. The most cringe part of this movie, that just so happens to be the culmination of the self realization of the main character, is the part when she "forgives herself". Dear Lord, it is the embodiment of stereotypical self help books, a virtue signalling via self reflection. It screams "I am special", it screams "I deserve love". And of course she does, she gets the hug from the life itself and the Earth. I hate it, absolutely hate it. I left the theatre craving Fight Club, for a dose of sanity.
Evidently im late to the party, but I think the movie (the story) fails as everything comes so easy to the protagonist. In each place she finds exactly what she's looking for, and pretty quickly. I know it's supposed to be feel-good, but I mean an episode of The Flintstones has more conflict.
one of the worst movie i ve ever seen. a point of view for other cultures totaly unrespectful full of clise. it is only good as a touristic traveling guide.....(you will like it if it is the first movie you see or if you have no idea of geography...)
Bickering like an old married couple. Wonderful. One of the worst films of all time given the hammering it deserves. Not as bad as The Piano or Truly Madly Deeply, but bloody close
