Eat Pray Love - Movie Review

I was a kid when I first read Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir of her life after the divorce. And it felt really liberating and when I think of it now, I think it’s because even in our modern world where women do not struggle with masculinity as much or as one would think; they still do, they do all over the world, not in the Middle East or Asia, they do in America, in Europe and everywhere.

But this book is not about a woman’s heartbreak, it’s not about her struggle with men, and it’s not a love story either. It’s about a woman who is simply fed up and decides to run off to find herself, discover her place in the world just as men have been doing since forever.

The film is directed by Ryan Murphy, who also happened to write the screenplay along with Jennifer Salt. The main character, Elizabeth, is played by the fantastic Julia Roberts who adds the perfect amount of complexity and depth to the character. 

Her relationship with her husband is ending before it has a chance to fully develop into something. She is a self-confident woman filled with guilt, regret, and disappointment in the world around her and the society we’re living in.

She tries to rebound with a younger man, only to discover that she is drifting away from the person she thought she was or want to become. I am fully aware that this doesn’t seem like a problem, as people suffer from so many bigger issues with the world and the society we live in, but this woman despite her good fortune is still lost, sad, and desperate to find a path that would allow her to go on with her life, counting her blessings where she reached a point of despair.