Did you find your destination before you set off?

Jayda 2022-03-25 09:01:09

I just watched "Food, Pray, Love" a few days ago. It is about a woman who is confused and confused in her unchanging married life, so she decides to find her own story. The film is divided into three parts: Italy, India and Bali. After a year of sojourn, the heroine finally found the balance in her inner world and gained the power to start her life again.

As far as the character itself is concerned, I don't think the heroine is pleasing to the eye: she is simply a selfish and self-willed woman. Because she has been to some places and wrote a few books, she feels very good about herself, so she begins to feel that marriage is a bondage. I feel that my husband is always immature and immature, and he can even easily and arbitrarily end years of marriage by forgetting the oath that "only death can separate you and me". In fact, the first thing she saw was always the same kind of man—a handsome but creamy boy—whether it was her husband, her later boyfriend, or a passer-by who was almost matched in Bali... In her heart It's always the girl who has been entangled in love since she was fifteen years old, extremely egoistic and extremely entangled.
When she accused her ex-husband of not making progress and only waiting during the divorce negotiations, she was actually questioning her inner fears: she also travels the world, she also writes speeches, she also buys a house and gets married, she has a career and a family A beautiful woman who loves her husband and has what most women can only dream of.
But she didn't know what she wanted.

People who don't know what they want will not be too happy no matter what they give her.

When she prayed to God alone at night, when she filed for divorce inexplicable tears, when she insisted on divorce, when she fell in love with a young actor and quarreled, when she lay on the ground in the morning When... I really had the urge to slap her to death. This kind of distorted personality, full of literary plots and dramatic elements, is simply a model of nothing to do. If it weren't for Julia Roberts' clean and bright temperament, I wouldn't have watched this movie anyway.

I think the wisest decision the heroine made was to stay single for the year. A person who has either been in love or broke up since the age of fifteen has no time to think about his life. Clinging to another person or relationship whenever possible for fear of being alone is a mistake many people make. But it's not that you can get rid of loneliness by always being accompanied by someone. Only when you know how to be alone with yourself can you know the true sense of belonging. Otherwise, even if people around you come and go, you will always be alone.

The first stop of the sojourn was Italy. This is also my least favorite part: the film technique has a strong petty bourgeoisie color, and it is suspected of advertising for the Italian Tourism Board. Of course, I also admit that the exquisitely processed food, wine and beautiful scenery are indeed very tempting. The visual and auditory details are carefully sculpted and amplified, and the lively Italian style is blowing. The 'sweetness of doing nothing' The Italian-style philosophy of life is very appealing to me, and the last scene of the whole family sitting together for Thanksgiving in the United States is also very warm. But if this part lacking in soul is not pretending to be forceful, it is a soft-sex tourism promotional film.

Then the heroine went to India in an unbelievable way to practice with her ex-boyfriend's yoga teacher. Fortunately, she is the kind of person who can't get to the bottom of anything and can't meditate. If the plot is that she is relaxed and enlightened, it would be too much. The plot in India is actually a bit far-fetched and boring. This situation continued until the end, when the old man who practiced with her expressed her inner pain on the roof and she finally began to truly face her past, and it began to get better.

There, she finally remembered that she actually loved her husband so much, remembered the happiness she once had in her dreams, and remembered the love that was slowly forgotten in the long and dull time, she finally stopped subconsciously. As a victim of imprisonment, she finally realizes how cruel and selfish she has done, and finally understands why she didn't feel relieved when she got rid of her bondage and regained her freedom...
She never knew what she wanted, and she never knew what she wanted. You don't realize what you have.

Before that, she was someone who couldn't be truly happy.
After that, she has to forgive her past self and start over. A fresh start.

Bali is a pristine place full of original vitality. Here, the heroine begins to learn how to live alone, learn to withdraw, and learn to help others. She is finally no longer a role that can only be demanded, and her aesthetics have begun to change - the affectionate version of the Brazilian uncle who has been a widow for many years with a father and son has undoubtedly taught her what long-term love is. Of course, there's no suspense when she finds out she's in love with her, and her dramatic personality and selfish nature begin to play out again. Fortunately, the sentence 'To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life' by Mr. Toothless awakened this woman who only knew how to protect herself at a critical moment. I think, from now on, she probably has the ability to be happy.

The original is said to have changed many people's lives (eg, Raj =__________= in The Big Bang Theory). Believe it or not, I believe it anyway.
Because of the weakness of the heroine's personality, many people have it; the mistakes made by the heroine are made by many people.
For those who are still hesitating in the middle of the road, they can either gain an epiphany from it and know that what they are looking for is actually what they already have, so they can open their hearts and get happiness; or they can gain the courage to start looking for themselves, and learn from more experiences. My deepest desires may have to suffer and suffer some injuries, but it is better than constantly falling into a vicious circle of self-inflicted sins and harming others.
Please understand yourself first, forgive yourself, and then go.

If you want to have the ability to be happy,
you must first know what happiness is for you.

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Eat Pray Love quotes

  • Sharon in Seva Office: [Liz has been called to the seva office] We're taking you off the floor-scrubbing team. There are about 50 devotees arriving tomorrow from all over the world for a 10-day retreat, and we'd like you to be the key hostess. We ask that you don't take part during the meditations. We need you to watch over the flock, make sure everyone is all right

    Sharon in Seva Office: [continues, as Liz remains silent] We call the person who does this job, "Little Suzy Cream Cheese." You need to be social and bubbly and smiling all the time.

    Liz Gilbert: [breaking into a big smile] Madam... I'm your girl!

  • [Last lines]

    Liz Gilbert: I decided on my word. "Attraversiamo"... It means: "Let's cross over".