Opinion : Eat, Pray, Love...Huh?

Last weekend I thought I'd watch "Eat, Pray, Love", not because I've been dying to see it, or even because I thought I'd be impressed with it. It was more out of curiosity to see why it was such a big deal.

I thought it was one of the most unmemorable movies I've seen in a long time.

Let's see, it has a lot of Julia Roberts, eating, riding a bike, trying to figure out who she is, and being with multiple men.

The three times I woke up, I remember thinking, "This is boring..." or maybe it was that I just didn't get it.

Of course, I never GOT Algebra either.

To me, if you wanted to know if z+r-q=w then why would w=t, you'd better explain to me what difference it made, and why it mattered.

The teachers always said, "You'll need to know this one day..."

Well, after 45 years, I've only needed to know it for one thing...

"What am I going to need algebra for?" my kids ask.

I smile sweetly and quote my teachers, "One day you'll need to know this..." and when they say, "Why?" I explain, "So you can teach your kids."

I always thought Algebra was a joke...until I had to get serious about trying to explain it to my kids...which required a call to dad, to explain to mom, what the book is saying. Then mom has to interpret what dad said to the kids so they could understand what dad meant...I sometimes think I needed a mom in my classroom, because now, I get it, sort of...but in school, I never did!

I've also never understood abstract paintings.

The idea that someone can splatter paint on a canvas then come up with some explanation like how it speaks of the deep inner turmoil of the mind...well, I'd have to agree with that concept, but really, it's just paint slapped on a canvas.

Then there's the huge metal sculptures that look like a junk yard was raided and they were fortunate enough to find 4 similar shapes so they thought hey'd just weld them together and call it art.

I like things in black and white.

I like my math to have numbers and my art to be a picture of something you can clearly see and metal sculptures to either replicate something or be left in the junkyard.

I'm not a complicated gal I guess.

So, back to Eat, Pray and Love.

When I FINALLY got to the end of the movie and heard the line "God dwells within you, as you." I tried to figure out what exactly that means.

This immediately got my attention. Not because I thought it was a brilliant beyond brilliant statement, but because it's one of those statements that are abstract and you can make it mean anything you want.

It sounds to me like she was saying:

God is now you, or was she saying that you are now God? Maybe she meant that whatever you do is okay, because you are now "God-ish".

Being the gal that sees a lot of humor where no one else does, I then spent the rest of the movie thinking, "If this gal is saying that she is now God, yikes!" or "Is that as good as it gets?" or "He can't do any better than to be a human, we're all sunk!" and finally "Seriously?"

So yeah, if you like the kind of stuff that is open to all kinds of interpretation, this is your movie, I found it too exhausting to try and figure out.

Give me "Die Hard" with a lot of action, car chases and bad guys I get that...or "Speechless" an old movie about rival political writers that has the dry sort of humor I love...I'd rather watch "You've Got Mail" with Meg Ryan (one of my least favorite actresses) or a Kevin Costner movie (Meg's male version, yuck ;) at least with those movies there's a clear story that I don't have to try and figure out...but "Eat, Pray, Love", I just hope they don't remake it...

P.S...my apologizes to those of you who loved the movie ;)