Review: Eat Pray Love

Like any other boring night at the Bradley household, we headed to the movie rental place. I had intentions of getting Vampires Suck (for Twilight fans and haters alike, this movie comes out on Tuesday), but ended coming home with Eat Pray Love.

Eat Pray Love features Julia Roberts as Liz Gilbert. In the film, Liz is struggling to find herself. She decides to travel to Rome, India, and Bali for a year, and she learns a lot while she is abroad.  I won't give you too much detail. Wouldn't want to ruin it for you!

As odd as it may sound, my opinion changed drastically throughout the course of this movie and even after it was over. At the beginning of the movie, I was very interested, and it held my attention for a while. Then, once she left Italy, I began to lose interest, and continued to down until the end. So I would probably rate the first half four out of five stars. Towards the end, I'd probably only give it three and then two stars. But once I got to thinking about it, I couldn't stop. I wonder now if that was the creator's intention. Did they really want to tell you the story of some writer from New York that spontaneously decides to travel around the world?

No, I don't believe that. I think they wanted to transmit a message, and knew that with people's attention span these days, it would hold peoples attention if there was a story to go with that message. So, after all this ranting that was going on inside my head (it can get pretty busy up there), I decided that this movie, no, this message is a good four out of five stars.

As I said before, my brain is usually going 100 miles an hour. So...as nerdy as this may sound, I took notes while I watched Eat Pray Love. I knew if I didn't I would forget all my thoughts by the next day. I basically wrote down what I liked and didn't like. Unfortunately, I wrote down a lot more negative than positive things. For example:

• They fall in love too fast.
• All of the men look alike! Most of the men had dark hair.
• I think Liz thinks too much.
• The main character is interesting, but I found her somewhat hard to relate to.
• It was definitely hard to keep track of how much time was passing. There were parts where I thought maybe a couple weeks had gone by, when really a couple months had elapsed.
• Some of the accents made it hard to understand. (I recommend subtitles!)
• It was somewhat long and drawn out.
• The ending was disappointing.

There were good things about it though:

• The characters were interesting.
• There were some good quotes (I'm a quote addict).
• The scenery is nice.
• It was nice to see other cultures.
• There was interesting symbolism. I'll let you find that on your own.

All in all, I think I would recommend this to certain people and not others. Some women would definitely like this. Some would not however. I think you have to kind of like all that deep emotional stuff to appreciate Eat Pray Love. Men- don't even try. Most of you will be snoozing in the first five minutes. This is DEFINITELY a chic flick.

I hope you liked the review and found it useful. If it sound like your kind of thing, you can buy it right here. If you're interesting in reading the book (I know I am...), you can find that, in the hardcover, paperback, audio book, or Kindle addition all right here.