Eat Pray Love

Queen of the Rom-Com, Julia Roberts, is back with her usual romantic feel good movie, and once again she’s done a pretty fantastic job. Eat Pray Love, from the creator of Glee Ryan Murphy, is a very girly movie about a woman who feels as though she is trapped in her marriage, and this leads to her going on a journey to various places around the world, in order to achieve ‘balance’ and find what is missing in her life. As the title suggests, in the first country she eats great food, in the second country she finds religion, and in the third she, of course, finds love.

As an aspiring jetsetter myself, I really engaged with the movie, as well as Julia Roberts' character Liz Gilbert. In the same way that street dance movies make you think you could be a dancer yourself, Eat Pray Love makes you think that one day you will be able to travel the world and be as happy and content as Liz after her adventure.
James Franco has a small role in the film as Liz’s New York boyfriend, but unfortunately doesn’t make a very big impact. As for Roberts, you really believe that she has a connection with the character, this could be because she is supposedly a practising Buddhist and meditates regularly, or it could just be that she’s a good actor

Overall it was a lovely, uplifting film, and Roberts was a great choice for the lead as she’s doing what she does best (cry lots and fall in love with good looking men). If you don’t like cheesy romantic films then this isn’t for you, but if you enjoy films which bring a tear to your eye and make you really empathise with the main character then you should definitely give it a go.