Review: Eat, Pray, Love

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We finally succumb and review Eat, Pray, Love and find it well, worthy of backing up the reason we didn't review it in the first place (all bias aside, promise).

The movie starts off with a divorce. Liz Gilbert played by Julia Roberts has a mini break-down and divorces her boring husband. She then plans a year long trip that spans Italy, India and Indonesia and chooses to step outside her comfort zone to find herself in food, prayer and ultimately, love.

Before the truth is revealed to you- kudos are given to the actors, Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem (everyone only ever cares about these two anyways);they were great, they know how to make you cry and when to feel all mushy.

But for crying out loud, movies like this give everyone a wrong perception of food, religion and relationships. Not to be the voice of reason but this even as mere entertainment is trying to mimic real life pain (divorce) and provide a real life solution (binge eating in Italy).

This isn’t Oprah trying to give anyone life advice but, honestly, this movie will leave you feeling even worse about whatever reason compelled you to watch the movie in the first place; because subconsciously you know that this is in fact Julia Roberts travelling the world with a lot of money/time to burn and had an unrealistic chance of meeting all the right people at the right time.

And “Let Yourself Go this August” for a tagline is pretty lame, you have to agree. When I think of someone “letting go”: it’s not a pretty picture. (Just to capitalize on the moment, neither is this film)

WATCH THE TRAILER HERE

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