A woman's midlife crisis

Lucile 2022-04-19 09:02:02

As the United States, which has always focused on commercial blockbusters, I am surprised that such a simple and fresh film can be made to analyze life. Although I still felt that I lacked a little emotional impact in the process of watching the film, I still liked this American fresh drama very much.

If you think of this film as vulgar, it is nothing more than a woman who has encountered a mid-life crisis, embarking on a journey to pursue her own spiritual redemption in order to find a new spiritual life. But the success of this film, the moving point, is that few people can give up everything and embark on an unknown journey like the heroine. Most people go through their lives as the black girlfriend put it. "When I was in my 20s, I fell in love and got married. When I was in my 30s, I was desperately trying to make money and earn a house. One day I suddenly realized that this was not what I wanted. They were frustrated, lost, and in extreme pain, but they still held up their chests and went to a psychiatrist for help. "Indeed, how many people can dare to break through this fixed life shackles, abandon everything, and live only for their own hearts? ! The life of a black girlfriend is in stark contrast to that of Leeds. Although she also longs to leave like Leeds, she cannot. She has a husband and son who she loves, and she must and must stay to maintain a family. This kind of life is what most people are going through~~
Liz longs for a life with passion, conviction, spark, and enthusiasm, which undoubtedly shows that a middle-aged woman, after half her life, begins to doubt the past. Life, so, began to pursue a new spiritual sustenance.

Rice: When people's love is lost, they fill their stomachs with food, and at the same time they get the pleasure of their hearts. So Liz spent months in Italy using food to fill her post-divorce gloom. At the same time, she also saw how happy and enviable it is to have a big happy family.
Prayer: In the film, I don’t understand why Liz divorced suddenly, is it just because she is dissatisfied with her unchanging life? If so, I think she also has guilt towards her ex-husband in her heart, so in India, she prayed to her heart The relief, while praying for others, looking for the redemption of their own souls. "God is in my heart and is with me." Leeds learned this from a trip to India. God will not care about a person who has nothing to do with him, in fact, the most important thing is that self-salvation, everything comes from self.
Love: Bali is full of the temptation of having an affair while having a pious idea. "How can you come to Bali without an affair." So while Liz continued to liberate herself, she also began to find another true relationship of herself. However, when love really came, Liz, who had already achieved mental balance, began to panic and start to get lost, just like the phrase "everyone in love is crazy", maybe once people have love, they start to get lost. The quietness and peace of her also began to slowly disappear. Liz was afraid that love would break the balance she had worked so hard to establish, so she escaped, and she did not dare to love. That's when I realized what the Texan man in India was telling her to "believe in love" when she left. When people enter a new life, in order not to break this new life norm, they lack courage when facing what they have experienced once again. But no one can escape love, so when love comes, we still have to hold him, even if we lose our balance. "Losing out of balance for love is part of a balanced life." This is life.

As a film on the road, I went to the field to shoot. Needless to say, the customs of various countries in the film, although not much is involved in vision, hearing, humanities, and history, but the performance in this film is not bad, and it is reflected from the side to a certain extent. The heroine's mood at that time.
The description of the customs of various countries, I personally like the description of the small movements when speaking to Italians. Through the lens, I began to yearn for the ancient art country of Italy~~

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  • Ruthe 2021-12-15 08:01:10

    I have always felt that the best way to tell a tragedy is humor. In other words, we might as well express any suffering in a relaxed tone. Life, but so. Yeah.

  • Abe 2021-12-15 08:01:10

    "Heartache is not a bad thing, it means you have paid." I prefer the Taiwan version of the translated title "Enjoy, Travel Alone". Most people will always change and be out of balance in their lives, but not many people dare to admit and make changes. Although the movie is divided into three sections, the length of two and a half hours still needs to be compressed again. Some people say that this is a groaning movie, but I think many things can only be understood through experience. ★★★

Eat Pray Love quotes

  • Felipe: Listen, balance, my darling, is not letting anybody love you less than you love yourself.

  • Liz Gilbert: In the end, I've come to believe in something I call "The Physics of the Quest." A force in nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity. The rule of Quest Physics goes something like this: If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.