EAT PRAY LOVE,

(2010)
MOVIE REVIEW

SUBMITTED BY:
JEROME M. DIMAANO
BSED IV-BIO SCI
SOC PHILO12

SUBMITTED TO:
MS. MARY GRACE ANDAL
SOC PHILO12 INSTRUCTOR
 EAT PRAY LOVE, (2010)
MOVIE REVIEW

PART I: INTRODUCTION

Eat Pray Love is a 2010 American biographical romantic drama film starring Julia

Roberts as Elizabeth Gilbert, based on Gilbert's 2006 memoir of the same name. Ryan
Murphy co-wrote and directed the film, which was released in the United States on
August 13, 2010. Julia Roberts as Elizabeth "Liz", Gilbert Javier Bardem as Felipe, a
Brazilian businessman Gilbert falls in love with on her journey, James Franco as David,
the man Gilbert has an intense relationship with while she is finalizing her divorce,
Richard Jenkins as Richard, a Texan Liz befriends at an Indian ashram, Viola Davis as
Delia Shiraz, Gilbert's best friend, Billy Crudup as Steven, Gilbert's ex-husband, Sophie
Thompson as Corella, a woman at the Indian ashram, Mike O'Malley as Andy Shiraz,
Delia's husband, Christine Hakim as Wayan, Gilbert's best friend in Indonesia, Arlene
Tur as Armenia, Hadi Subiyanto as Ketut Liyer, Gilbert's advisor in Indonesia, Gita
Reddy as The Guru, Tuva Novotny as Sofi, Gilbert's Swedish best friend in Rome, Luca
Argentero as Giovanni, Gilbert's Italian tutor and Sofi's love interest, Rushita Singh as
Tulsi, Liz's friend at the ashram who has an arranged marriage.

PART II: SUMMARY

Liz Gilbert (Roberts) had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of

having - a husband, a house, a successful career - yet like so many others, she found
herself lost, confused, and searching for what she really wanted in life. Newly divorced
and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change
her life, embarking on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-
discovery. In her travels, she discovers the true pleasure of nourishment by eating in
Italy; the power of prayer in India, and, finally and unexpectedly, the inner peace and
balance of true love in Bali.

PART III: ANALYSIS OF THE EVENTS

Elizabeth Gilbert has reached a crisis of faith in her life. Without her husband
Stephen realizing it, they have arrived at different and diverging places in their life,
which leads to her admitting that she wants out of the marriage. Following Liz and
Stephen's divorce, Liz immediately jumps into a relationship with actor, David Piccolo,
who she meets literally while he is performing in a stage play. After spending time with
David, she realizes that she is her biggest problem, and that she needs to find herself.
Partly based on earlier fore telling of a Balinese medicine man, Liz maps out her next
year, which will be spent in three places.

The first is Italy to learn Italian and regain her love of food, which has now
become more a matter a sustained. The second is India at the ashram of David's yogi to
achieve some spiritual peace in her life. And the third is Indonesia to reconnect with the
medicine man Ketut Liyer to see if he can provide any more insights into her life.
Although she sticks to her geographic plan, she often experiences things along the way
she didn't expect. But everything she worked so hard for to achieve that much needed
balance in life over the year may all be lost by the end of her stay in Indonesia.

PART IV: CREATIVE ELEMENTS

All cast of this movie do their best to perform their role as far as good they can.
So, they perform very well and fantastic. Julia Roberts play the very important role on
the film because she makes us realized that having everything in life won’t make us
happiest person on this world.

PART V: OPINION

In my own opinion, the movie was really impacts a lot to every people’s live
because it provides us the knowledge and information that we should have our goals in
life while having the happiness as well. Being rich and successful career won’t really
give us happiness in our life. Having a peaceful mind and believing in God also in
yourself will really makes you happy aside having a family.

PART VI: CONCLUSION

The film maker of Eat Pray Love succeed in his goal of reaching the hearts and
lives of the people watched this film however, it still received negative and positive
feedbacks from critics, but it was financial success , grossing 204.6million dollars
worldwide against a 60million dollars budget. It helps us realized how to embrace that
we have and explains how happiness makes one of us complete person on this one
shot of our life.