I love Julia Roberts, the Oscar-winning actress playing a leading role in “Eat, Pray, Love” a movie about a woman who after she married in an upper-class wedding later decides marriage is too stifling and she wants to travel. Sound familiar ladies?
Yes, the magical age is the 30’s for women. We start questioning our marriage,wondering why we ever got into one in the first place. In her quest to find herself while crisscrossing the world the movie focused on her trips to Italy, Indian and Bali in Indonesia. And she does her soul-searching in an ashram, a place for a spiritual retreat.
In this movie , Julia is playing a female character in her early thirties, having the financial resources to escape her humdrum marriage to follow her dreams simply to be a writer and write she did, the movie based on the memoirs of Elizabeth M. Gilbert published in Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Viking, 2006).
The memoir was on the New York Times Best Seller list of non-fiction in the spring of 2006, and in October, 2008, after 88 weeks, the book was still on the list at number 2 according to Wikipedia.
Gilbert, a highly paid free-lance writer financed her travels through a publisher’s advance writing in the memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, “she had no job to quit because sampling Roman restaurants, Indian meditation centers and Indonesian oceanfront bars pretty much was her job.”
And I love her relationship in the movie with the Brazilian, a hot one ladies, but don’t expect to see steaming sex scenes on the screen though the characters engage in it. And Julia is looking good as ever though she needs a new hairdo .
The real Elizabeth Gilbert, writer of the book falls in love with and does marry a Brazilian involved in the import and export business she met in her travels named José Nunez she married in 2007. They run an antique store and live in Frenchtown, N.J.
The scenes of Italy, India and Bali were just awesome, the best part of the movie since it really doesn’t represent the Memoir as good as the book. The music was nostalgic, show casing many tunes from the 1970s and eighties. Yet, one thumb up for the movie, a must see at the North Park Theater on Hertel Avenue in North Buffalo.
Especially for Women in Buffalo, New York 