FILM REVIEW
Eat, Pray, Love
Alexandrina Zhilinskaya
Lyceum BSPU,
Blagoveshchensk (Russia)
Hello again my dear readers, immensely
loving movies… oh maybe cartoons? Well but it
is not about that now anyway.
Today guys I will introduce you into
another exciting romantic film, which name
you could read above in the title. So, before we
start a conversation I strongly advise you to
stock up a cup of fragrant tea, a plate of
biscuits and to get ready to immerse in the
world of travelling and philosophy. Let's get
started!
February 2019 №2
SUNRISE
… Vast yellow and green fields are
stretching along for miles and a girl wearing a
summer hat is riding a bicycle. She is pedaling
quickly and seems to enjoy the surroundings,
smiling to her thoughts about life and plans for
the future. Then she stops to enter the shed
and talk to a local sage who knows everything.
The only thing he needs is to have a look at a
palm. So he predicts considerable changes.
She will lose all she has and come to Bali in a
few months. What`s more, he gives her a
picture representing some deity. According to
its meaning she must stand firmly on her feet
and look at the world around her with her
heart open to understand God… This is the
beginning of the story which immediately
makes us speculate on what could happen
next and what the heroine will do to figure out
all the possible challenges. The word challenge
is not a figure of speech here and not an
accidently made choice. It is a so- called inner
engine that stimulates you to move on and
look for the new and positive. It is not always
easy and of course not comfortable at all but
it is crucial when it comes to balance and
peace in soul.
So, as far as you can see, this plot is
about character and personality, about facts
and things that make them grow and develop.
Personal discoveries, religious guidelines,
search of inner truth. All this is built on the
autobiographical memories belonging to the
American author Elizabeth Gilbert who works
as a journalist and faces some troubles. Daily
routine can swamp you quickly especially if it is
combined with unhappy love story. Everything
gets dull and loss of taste for food and
attractions comes. Actually she had to deal
with it and was absolutely desperate when
taking up a divorce act. The only way out was
to undertake a journey to research herself in
exotic foreign climes. Thus, several months are
spent in Rome to enjoy food and life (Eat), then
off to India for meditation in an ashram to
learn to forgive herself for her past mistakes
and life choices (Pray) and finally to Bali,
Indonesia, to search for "balance" but finding
herself off-balance instead with a Brazilian
divorcee (Love). Moreover, she meets up with a
Balinese, 9th-generation medicine man there
again who helps her with charming
observations, wisdom, and a spiritual drawing.
I think one thing we all have in common is
that at some point in our lives, we've
questioned our choices. Are we on the right
path? Are we with the right person? For
Elizabeth these questions turned her life
upside down. She shared her “quest for
everything” in her best-selling memoir which is
the best way to convey love and meaning of
the soul to the readers. Four years later, the
autobiography was turned into a film starring
a surprisingly talented actress Julia Roberts.
There is hardly anyone who doesn`t know her
splendid acting!
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