‘The execrable Eat, Pray, Love’
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Dressed in traditional clothes, Julia Roberts paid a visit to an ashram on the outskirts of New Delhi yesterday while shooting her upcoming film Eat, Pray, Love.
The Hollywood actress met with Swami Dharmadev at Hari Mandir Ashram in Pataudi, India, where she is filming scenes for the adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s best selling book.
If like me you found Eat, Pray, Love utterly execrable–and couldn’t understand why anyone would choose to read about pasta, prayer and passion when they could be boning up on, say, Islamist politics in south Sulawesi circa 1965–please prepare yourself for more evidence that something is seriously, horribly wrong with this world.
Apparently the movie version stars Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem. It is being filmed on location with, one presumes, real Italian gourmands, authentic chanting Indians and truly homeless Indonesians. Two years from now everyone you know would have watched it. Half of them would have wept. The world’s net knowledge of south Sulawesi circa 1965 will be unchanged.
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I only want to read about politics in Sulawesi if it means I get some freshly roasted beans with it.
Hmmm, escapist fantasy (well-told, I thought) of fleeing suburban conventional American life, wandering the globe then returning home with ultimate prize of sexy/boho/foreign husband versus…Nope, not a chance.
Maybe I can take a leaf out of her book next time and return to Washington with a sexy/hobo/foreign militant I met in a coffee plantation. That ought to do the trick.