Eat Pray Love

Hi again,
As you might have guessed, today’s article will talk about the movie review “Eat Pray Love”(1).
The reasons why I chose this topic relies on two facts:
1) The movie based on the novel “Eat Pray Love” was a worldwide success. Which, by the way, makes the movie even more anticipated by its future audience.
2) Adaptations of novels usually attract many journalists attention.
But let’s move back to the article itself.
Written by Anthony O. Scott and published in the New York Times on 12th of August 2010, I believe this article was simply great.
First of all, the introduction was made according to the rulebook. He starts describing the movie’s philosophy and ends up explaining why the story suddenly turns upside down.
Secondly, in the third paragraph, he manages to make the review more original than others. For example, referring to “Sex and the City”, “Julie and Julia” and “The Blind Side”, he points out that feminist movies are recently quite in vogue.
Later on, he briefly describes Julia Robert’s performance in relation with her character. Surprisingly, doing so is not always part of movie reviews. But since “Eat Pray Love” partly owns its success to Julia’s appearance, I assume it was only compulsory.
Moreover, he finely mixes good points of the movie with some well-found anecdotes. He may have promoted too much the positives points – ending his article with “is unlikely to change anybody’s life”(2) or “provoke emotions anywhere near as intense as those experienced”(3) - but at least we got its point of view.
To conclude, I think this review was not only inventive but also well structured. It gave the readers a foretaste of the movie without revealing its entire content.

(1):http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/movies/13eat.html
(2)&(3):http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/movies/13eat.html?pagewanted=2