CKV report about the movie: Eat Pray Love.

For this first report I have to make for the subject ckv, I went to the cinema Arcaplex in Spijkenisse
with a friend, to watch the movie: Eat pray love with Julia Roberts. I thought it was a very good movie
with a very good, entertaining and a strong storyline. I liked the movie very much, it had all very
different emotions and conflicts. When you were watching,
you wouldn’t look away.

The movie eat pray love, is directed by a man who is called

Ryan Murphy. He is a very good director and he did direct a
lot other great movies. The actrice who is the most important
or better said , the protagonist, is the actrice named Julia
Roberts, in the movie she plays a woman called Elizabeth
(Liz) Gilbert. There are more important actors in the movie,
for instance, a Medicine man from Bali which is named Ketut
Liyer. Another famous personage is Stephen Gilbert, he is a
man which has also an important role in the movie. Stephen
Gilbert is played by the actor Billy Crudup.
To watch this movie I went to the cinema Arcaplex which is
in the neighbourhood Spijkenisse. The date
that is shave been to this movie is the 15th of October 2010.

It is not very easy to name all the locations of the movie, because there are a
lot of places where Elizabeth Gilbert is spending her time. Elizabeth Gilbert
is born and lives in New York her whole life, but later on in the movie gets
enough of New York and she decides trying to let her past behind her and
find her true self, she decides to go on a journey. On the journey that she is
going to make, she first goes to Italy. She stayed for approximately 4 months in Rome, were she
learned Italian and where she met great people. Her main reason to go to Italy was just to eat. After
that period Elizabeth stayed in Rome, she went to India. She came to India to pray for the Guru and
herself and she tried to live as a real citizen of India. When she was done with doing her thing in India,
she went to Indonesia to visit an old friend, Ketut the medicine man. During her stay in Bali, she was
searching for someone to love again.

Elizabeth was always dressed very well. In every country or city she stayed, she dressed herself very
appropriate, just like all other people. You could never see that she was from another country, only if
you looked at the color of her skin . Where ever she was, Elizabeth dressed herself in the correct way.
All the other people were also dressed very appropriate. In which city they were was not a problem,
they were all dressed in the good way. The fashion stylists did a very good job with the clothing of the
actors to make it look real. Elizabeth always had some make up on her face, but that is very normal in
a movie. All other actors were also covered with a little bit of makeup. The makeup artists did their
job also very well.

I absolutely think that the locations and the clothing have certainly something to do with the right
atmosphere. Because at every location, the actors wear all other clothes, they all were wearing the
right clothes. I can mention an example: When Elizabeth was staying in India, she had to pray every
morning at half past 5. She put on her special Indian clothes, and she went to the mosque to pray. The
clothes perfectly fitted with the location, because her clothes emitted the right feelings and
atmosphere. The whole picture was correct, the right location, the right clothing and together it formed
the right atmosphere.

The music in this movie did not always had a special role. Most of the time the music was just
mentioned for the background. It was not very special music, but the music was there also to entertain
the people who were watching the movie, otherwise it would be too boring very quickly to watch .
There are two times where the music was important. The first song was approximately in the middle of
the movie. Elizabeth Gilbert felt very lonely and depressed and she did not knew what to do anymore.
At that point of the movie there was a very sad song, which was about someone who felt alone and
sad. It was the perfect song to use at that moment. It made the feelings of Elizabeth very strong.
They played the second song at the last part of the movie. That was the moment that Elizabeth finally
found her new love and when she finally felt happiness. It was a the right time to play that happy song,
just to amplify the happy moment.

In the movie were not often very special sound effects. Most of the time you just heard the other music
playing, just the songs they used in the movie. I do not know for sure but maybe at some moments in
the movie there were special sound effects, but not a lot. Probably when something exciting was going
to happen, there was a thrilling sound, just to make that part of the movie more exiting to look, and to
pay more attention. I do know that in approximately in the middle of the movie, Elizabeth makes the
choice to go on her journey. And when she told her friends, you heard a loud crack. At that moment it
was quiet for a short period of time.

The story that the director wanted or tried to tell us, was build up very well, the movie had a very clear
storyline. All ( important) moments in the movie were all in a very chronological way. At every part or
moment in the movie you could know what it was about or what was happening. You could even think
of what would happen next, because the storyline was so well done, that you always knew what or
were it was going to be about. At some moments there was a flashback or a memory that came back in
her mind.

One of the scenes which I can remember the most and which I thought was the most fun, was the
scene where Elizabeth Gilbert went to a party. First she did not wanted to go to that party, but when
she saw the woman who she met that afternoon, she got more and more excited. When the lady from
the afternoon told Elizabeth that she had found the perfect man for her, Elizabeth started talking to him
and later on they had much fun and they started dancing. When she was having fun, she started to
drink more and more alcohol. Before she knew she got drunk.
I thought the scene was very well filmed. The way how they filmed the
scene was very interesting. The scene was most of the time filmed from
the front, not from above. Only some moments the camera position was
from above. What I noticed was that all the scenes were in order.

The genre of this movie is the genre drama, because in this movie
happen a lot of things. Some moment in the movie cause a
drama, that is why I think that is the perfect genre for this movie. I
will mention an example. At the beginning of the movie, you saw Elizabeth in Bali sitting with the
medicine man Ketut. They talked about her future. When Elizabeth went back to New York, she
married and lived a happy life. Well, that is what she thought it was. She divorced and after a while
she found herself a new lover. When they broke up, Elizabeth went on a journey to Italy, India and
Indonesia.

The movie is about the woman Elizabeth Gilbert, who had in her past been to Bali to a medicine man
name Ketut, to ask him how her future was going to be. He told her everything about her future and he
also said to her that she would ever come back to Bali again. When she was back home in New York,
she married a guy named Stephen Gilbert, after a couple years, they divorced. Later on Elizabeth met
a new man, and they got together as boyfriend and girlfriend. Suddenly after some years together,
Elizabeth knew that it wasn’t her destiny to be with him forever, she wanted and needed something
else. That is why she left her boyfriend and went to go on a trip, to find what she really wanted. She
was looking for what she was living for. She first went to Italy for 4 months, there she met some great
people and she ate a lot. Then she went to India to pray for the Guru as a real citizen of India. At least
she went to Indonesia, to Bali, just like the medicine man Ketut told her. In India she found some new
love.

There are a lot of different conflicts in this movie. All that conflicts make the storyline of the movie
more fun and more interesting to watch. I will mention a couple of examples which show that there are
a lot different conflicts in this movie. The first example is approximately in the beginning of the
movie, when Elizabeth Gilbert wants to divorce from her current husband Stephen Gilbert. Later on in
the movie, they show that they had to go to court to discuss with their lawyers. They discussed about
who gets to keep all the things they shared. Elizabeth was driving crazy of him so she said that
Stephen could keep everything. After her divorce, she met someone else, and when they broke up,
they both had to cry, it was very tragic. The last conflict I name was approximately in the end of the
movie, when Elizabeth didn’t knew what she had to do with her new love Felipe that she found in
Indonesia. Felipe asked Elizabeth if she wanted to come with him on a boat to a deserted island.
Elizabeth did not knew exactly what she wanted, so she got angry. But later in the movie Elizabeth
apologized to him and they still went to that island together.

The most important person in the movie is Elizabeth Gilbert, her role is played by the actrice Julia
Roberts. Elizabeth is a women who has no clue what to do with her life, she is a little insecure, she
doesn’t know how she has to live her life. It is a very insecure, soft, trustable, sweet, sensitive lady. I
noticed all her characteristics in all different scenes. In every scene you can tell something about her
character. She is a very open person and she let other people come in her life very quickly. Another
important person from the movie is a man named Felipe, his role is played by the actor Javier Bardem.
Felipe is a very insecure man, he has a soft and sweet character. He is very careful opposed to other
people. You can notice that especially in the last scene, when he was very nice to his new girlfriend
Elizabeth.
The last important person in the movie I am going to name is Ketut Liyer, his role is played by the
actor Hadi Subiyanto. He is a very wise man he is namely a medicine man. When Elizabeth asked him
for his help, he helped her very kindly. He is a calm, restful and careful man.
The first relationship I am going to tell you about is the relationship between Elizabeth Gilbert and
Stephen Gilbert, is that they were married. Years ago they met each other, and finally after a lot of
years spending together, they decided to get married. It was not a very long relationship, because after
a couple of years, Elizabeth and Stephen divorced. Stephen did not wanted to divorce, but Elizabeth
did, so they still divorced.
The second relationship I am going to explain about is the relationship between Elizabeth and Felipe,
is that later on in the movie they had a relationship as boyfriend and girlfriend. Elizabeth met Felipe in
the last country she was, that was namely Indonesia. When Elizabeth was on her bike, a car hit her and
she fell. The man who ran into her was Felipe, he felt very sorry for what he did to her. At a party
Felipe was there as well, they started talking and finally it ends to a relationship between the two.
The last relationship I am going to describe is between Elizabeth and Ketut the medicine man.
Elizabeth met Ketut years ago when she was in Bali. The man told her everything he knew about her
future, he also told her she would ever come back to Bali. A couple of years later, she came back to
Bali, just as Ketut told her. He helped her to find her true self. For a couple of moths she came at his
place, and then he told her more and more, he was always right and everything he said was true.

The people in the movie present just normal people. Actually they act how it could be in real life, in a
normal life. It is not a battle between who is good, or who is the bad guy. I think that the director want
to tell us that life is something beautiful, and that it does not always goes how you want it goes, but
finally everything will be alright. That will be the message by this movie from the director.

With the person I commiserate the most was of course Elizabeth. I know it is just a movie, but all the
decisions she makes, are all very good. I respect her doing the way she wants to do all things in life.
Everything she does, come always to the right end. Maybe she sometimes makes hard or wrong
decisions, she will always end up very well. She did not always had a easy or a happy life, but she did
always survived everything and that is very good.

I think that the director of this movie, did not made

it to teach us something. The only reason why it
could be teaching, is because of the wise life
lessons that are used in this movie. I think that the
director Ryan Murphy filmed this movie for 2
reasons. I will explain why I think that. The first
function of this movie will be to amuse the people
who watch, because it is a very funny, good and
interesting movie. The main reason of this movie
will be an opinion, a crossing a message. Ryan
Murphy wants to tell us that life does not always
goes the way that you want how it has to be. In the movie he will let us see how Elizabeth Gilbert
deals with that problems, in her life she has some ups and downs. Ryan Murphy wants to tell that you
would never give up, when something does not goes the way you want it to go.

The things that the director Ryan Murphy uses to keep the attention of the people who watch, are a lot
of recourses. He keeps them watching by funny parts, but also when there is a sad moment in the
movie, he goes further in the meanings. I think that he keeps the people watch by amplifying the
different emotions Ryan Murphy uses with his actors.
The people want to stay looking at it, to see what is going to happen next, and how all actors will
respond at each other. They get curious of what will going to happen next.

When I bought my tickets to this movie, I did not had a very big prediction. It only seemed a nice,
good movie to me. When is saw some pictures of the movie and when I read the summary where the
movie was about, I thought it was a story about a woman who was making a trip to some countries.
That was the only things where I was right. All the other things that happened in the movie I would
never expected. All the trouble and the problems were very surprising, because I thought it was a
movie were someone was going on a vacation trip, I never thought it would be about a woman who
lost herself and tried to look for her true self again.

The part that had the most impression at me, was when Elizabeth woke up in the middle of the night,
and when she went praying. She went back to bed, when she suddenly said to her husband Stephen
Gilbert that she did not want to be married. He was shocked and he cried. When she still was busy
with the divorce, Elizabeth met a new boyfriend. Also to him she said, I have to make a trip to find
myself again. So Elizabeth left him also. He was heartbroken for a very long time.

My impression of this movie was very good, I thought it was a great movie. The storyline was perfect
and I loved it to watch. I thought it was that good, because the storyline was very catchy, I liked it to
watch how the actors deal with all the problems. The part of the movie when Elizabeth was strong
enough for the divorce, was a great moment.

This movie is based on a true story.

Review: http://www.filmtotaal.nl/recensie.php?id=19346
One bad point, it is in Dutch, I could not find one a good in English

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