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Thoughtful and touching
PostedAugust 22, 2010
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A young woman leaves her marriage and immediately embarks on another relationship that also fails. Troubled, Liz realizes that she needs to focus on herself for a time. She decides to pursue a long-held desire to travel to distant places. Her sojourns in Italy, India, and Bali enable her to come to terms with her relationship failures and to renew herself physically, spiritually, and emotionally. Along the way she meets wise people who help her in her quest. Ultimately she finds a new love that she is now ready to embrace. Being divorced myself, I think the marriage breakup at the start of the film glossed over what is a long and painful process. But once Liz starts to travel the film becomes engrossing. So much of the spiritual journey is the processing and understanding of one's own pain, and as well as learning to accept and forgive oneself for being human. The film expresses all of this beautifully. Even though no film based on a book can duplicate the book's complexity and nuance, perhaps such a film may be considered a success if it makes you run out and buy the book. It did for me!
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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