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    The "Eat, Pray, Love" trailer: Despite our best defenses, totally made us cry


    Even if "Eat, Pray, Love" turns out to be the worst, cheesiest, most manipulative movie of all time (we certainly had all sorts of conflicting feelings about the book), this trailer is kind of awesome and amazing. Maybe beyond kind of. And it definitely made us cry in that way that is embarrassing, but also uplifting and cynicism-abating and woman-centered and makes you happy to be alive and grateful for getting to live great things. Check it out.

     

    43 comments

    • slam  •  2 years 2 months ago
      Did you read the book Elaine? Elizabeth Gilbert didn't end up right where she started....she had a life changing experience in her travels in which she eventually finds herself (so she was ready for the man of her dreams not to complete her but to share her life experience and journey). I don't think all women are looking for a man to complete them and hoping to be Cinderella. I'm definitely not.
    • Melissa  •  2 years 2 months ago
      Hey thanks for the support ladies! It's very encouraging to know other women feel this way too. :)
    • Alison  •  2 years 2 months ago
      Purge, Sin, Hate.... Julia is annoying.........
    • CamilleA  •  2 years 2 months ago
      I didn't read the book and this trailer ain't doing it for me either. What a waste of Viola Davis! For my "monied white woman finding herself abroad" fix, I'll just rewatch Under The Tuscan Sun.
    • NicoleW  •  2 years 2 months ago
      Like Jess and Kristina, I loved loved loved this book. It was like reading something I could have written myself, had I chosen that path. I was (and still am, a little) very suspicious of the "Hollywoodization" of one of my favorite books...but this trailer gives me hope. I think...maybe?...they might have nailed it, and left the heart intact.

      The trailer's good, anyway...hope the movie is as good as the trailer!
    • Erin  •  2 years 2 months ago
      Yeah, 'Commitment' (her next book) was not really 'Eat Pray Love Part II.' If you go into it expecting the same person/voice you will be disappointed.
      She is a very talented writer, who is diverse. I think it shows her ability that she can do something so different - doesn't churn out the same perspective over and over.
    • Kristina  •  2 years 2 months ago
      I meant Eat Pray Love :)
    • Minty Me  •  2 years 2 months ago
      For those of you who have not read the book, here's a summary: unhappy, self-centered woman (who grew up with loving, doting parents on a little Christmas tree farm) living a very nice life decides she's unhappy being unhappy with her education, husband, a house, and successful career so she dumps her husband and flakes off to Europe to eat, "pray" and have sex. She "discovers" herself when she meets her new lover. Then she gets herself on Oprah.
    • kizzie  •  2 years 2 months ago
      Booo! Bring the vid back :-(
    • SueR  •  2 years 2 months ago
      I love this book so far it's very uplifting and eyeopening
    • Kristina  •  2 years 2 months ago
      the book was amazing, her second book 'commitment' left me longing for the first. I was soooo disappointed. It was more like marriage statistics book. Pity
      I can not imagine Love Eat Pray being a movie and Julia Roberts???? please NO NO NO
    • Aviva  •  2 years 2 months ago
      This book inspired me. cant wait for the movie
    • April  •  2 years 2 months ago
      Amen Melissa....Amen. We WOMEN need to support each other. Many of our problems would be solved if we did.
    • Shelly  •  2 years 2 months ago
      Had they cast anyone but Julia Roberts in this I'd probably be excited about seeing it, but I've yet to see a movie starring Julia Roberts that I have actually enjoyed. I'll pass.

      And um...I've never even HEARD of this book let alone read it. Wow. I must live under a rock or something. LoL
    • Wookieecat  •  2 years 2 months ago
      I could very well be the only person on earth who hasn't read this book yet.
    • Krystal  •  2 years 2 months ago
      Great words Melissa!! Thank you for saying what so many people would want to say. Race should have nothing to do with a person's story being valuable and us, as women, should support each other. We all have our different struggles, our own joys and triumphs and they are all worthy of being shared.
    • CarmenO  •  2 years 2 months ago
      I don't get why this trailer made anyone cry. It seems quite uplifting to me. I should start packing my bags and get myself to Paris. (I'm hispanic, supposedly under the poverty line and fat. I say supposedly because I can afford everything I need, have a nice house, a small cottage and no financial problems unlike many 'rich' people.)
    • Habanero♥™  •  2 years 2 months ago
      Boy if that wasn't this white broad I don't know who is.

      Thanks for the share. Loved the book and I will love the movie, too!
    • NicoleW  •  2 years 2 months ago
      Elaine, I see your point, but what I took out of it was that she finally found love as herself, not as a carbon copy of her partner. Boy, can I relate to that! Felipe adored her unconditionally, and wanted nothing more than to be with her as she was, on whatever terms she allowed that to happen, and she got that; she wasn't trying to push herself into the role of Wife and Mother (or even, I'd argue by that point, Enlightened Woman), she was just...Liz. And she stayed Liz, she didn't (as her friend pointed out) begin to look like Felipe. And that made her able to love and be loved in a much deeper and truer way than her relationships with her husband and David.

      Yes, she was in love again by the end of the book (hope that's not a spoiler...it's in the title!), but it was a much more sacred and mature love, and I found it most satisfying - in the book and in real life!
    • mighty_mouse  •  2 years 2 months ago
      I would totally go see that movie if Julia Roberts wasn't in it. Bummer...

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