Eat. Pray. Love.

A guilty pleasure for the ladies.

Watching this film felt as if I had entered a secret women's club: Not a single male in the audience. By now you would have heard a lot about the film and its all true. It's good and it's not so good.

Adapting any best-selling novel to an entirely different medium is no doubt a difficult task. It always surprises me when people are upset that it's not the same as the book. Novels are more often than not jam packed with interior thoughts and 200+ pages of prose; which is not easy to translate into a 90 minute, purely visual and audio experience. Saying that, I actually think this film did quite well.

Eat Pray Love stayed true to the book and highlighted all of the key events and people Elizabeth Gilbert experienced. Julia Roberts fitted the role perfectly and encapsulated the persona of Liz without fault. But I'm saying this with a greater knowledge of the character because I've read the book.

Sadly, if you haven't read the book, the course of events may seem irrational and unsubstantiated.

The soundtrack was pretty damn awesome though! So go and enjoy it for what it is. A sensory and visual pleasure with glorious scenery of Italy, India and Bali.

I'm off to the travel agent.

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