Reject internal friction and enjoy the happiness of doing nothing

Highly recommended! Reject internal friction and enjoy the happiness of doing nothing!

Movie title: "Eat, Pray, Love"

Plot | Love | ? | A certain petal 7.4

2023 Hundred Film Project (16/100) — "Eat, Pray, Love"

Directed by Ryan Murphy, starring Julia Roberts, it takes the growth process of women as the main subject, with Rome, India, and Bali as the background. The protagonist is in the long tug-of-war of divorce. Finally, give yourself a year's vacation to travel abroad. During the journey, food, prayer and love, you can seriously think about life.

Elizabeth is a popular writer in the New York Times. She has an excellent husband, a successful career and a good life. However, the loss of her passionate life makes her collapse day by day. She divorces and soon falls in love again. She was confused in her new relationship, as if she had fallen into an inertial emotional vortex, with "no passion, no energy, no faith, no vitality at all." So she decided to spend a year traveling to learn to live with herself. She went to Rome, India, and Bali. India explores faith, Bali finds love, and Rome is a journey to find herself. In Rome, Elizabeth begins to truly realize that "losing balance because of love is the most important part of the balance in life." She has been in and out of relationships since she was 15, and has never been alone for more than two weeks. She found unprecedented relaxation in Rome.

The Romans said "the sweetness of doing nothing, of which we are masters." I like the story of Rome so much. I rent a house with mottled walls and a long history, walk on the ancient streets, taste delicious food, learn the language by myself, imitate the rich body language of the locals, and learn their ability to please themselves, so that I will no longer be troubled. Will the "swimming ring" on the waist make a man lose interest? After eating this pizza, he will buy a larger pair of jeans; he will not give up an exquisite nightgown just because no one appreciates it, and he will wear it to make breakfast for himself. Just as touching.

Westerners’ insistence on spiritual needs and self-worth is sometimes really touching. The movie did not explain much about the reasons for insisting on divorce, and some people commented that it was hypocritical. But I am completely capable of feeling this kind of spiritual emptiness. Financial problems, betrayal and deception, and raising children are not all the reasons for the breakdown of marriages. The lack of identity and value may be the root cause of women's dissociation. I think the film as a whole is still very touching and healing, but the ending is too pursuit of perfection. The part of arranging a suitable partner for the heroine is really dispensable, and relationships are not a necessary condition for happiness.

I would like to share with you the Italian joke in the movie: a poor man prayed in church every day and asked God to let him win the lottery prize. Finally, the god said: "Please, buy a lottery ticket first." He wanted to enter the castle. , you have to swim across the moat. If you want to get rid of the emptiness, you must first make changes.