Friday, August 13, 2010
Eat Pray Love
Between New York, Rome, New Delhi and Bali, a plot's got to turn up somewhere along the way. Check the luggage, suggests Kimberly Gadette. Seriously, how do you leave home without it?
Long before the days of personal photos on the computer, do you remember that one particularly dull co-worker named Gerald who'd come back from vacation with piles of pictures in chewed yellow envelopes? He'd force them upon you while he droned on in excruciating detail about food he'd consumed, strangers he'd met – stories devoid of even a shred of human interest. But you had to humor him because, frankly, what with all the personal time you'd already taken from that hellhole of a job, you couldn't afford to flee.
Eat Pray Love is a lot like Gerald. But now ... you can tell Gerald to go jump in the lake. (Since he's already vacationed there, he knows exactly where to go.)
The film offends from the very start. In an opening voiceover lifted directly from Elizabeth Gilbert's book, Julia Roberts' Liz recounts how her psychologist girlfriend was called on to counsel Cambodian refugees who'd lived through hell: rape, torture, gruesome murders of relatives that had occurred before their eyes. Yet these women only wanted to talk about their romantic life – whether this or that fellow at the camp loved this or that girl, even though he had married another, etc. Liz sums up the anecdote by saying: "This is what we are like."
Read More Great Site http://www.indiemoviesonline.com/reviews/eat-pray-love-081310
Long before the days of personal photos on the computer, do you remember that one particularly dull co-worker named Gerald who'd come back from vacation with piles of pictures in chewed yellow envelopes? He'd force them upon you while he droned on in excruciating detail about food he'd consumed, strangers he'd met – stories devoid of even a shred of human interest. But you had to humor him because, frankly, what with all the personal time you'd already taken from that hellhole of a job, you couldn't afford to flee.
Eat Pray Love is a lot like Gerald. But now ... you can tell Gerald to go jump in the lake. (Since he's already vacationed there, he knows exactly where to go.)
The film offends from the very start. In an opening voiceover lifted directly from Elizabeth Gilbert's book, Julia Roberts' Liz recounts how her psychologist girlfriend was called on to counsel Cambodian refugees who'd lived through hell: rape, torture, gruesome murders of relatives that had occurred before their eyes. Yet these women only wanted to talk about their romantic life – whether this or that fellow at the camp loved this or that girl, even though he had married another, etc. Liz sums up the anecdote by saying: "This is what we are like."
Read More Great Site http://www.indiemoviesonline.com/reviews/eat-pray-love-081310
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