Miscellaneous Movie Musings

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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

I have no large urge to see Julie & Julia. When the book crossed my desk I read the blurb and the description kind of turned me off. "A woman tries to fix the massive problems in her life by obsessing about cooking everything in a cookbook in one year" sounds more depressing than inspiring to me. Um, maybe there are better ways to work on your marriage or fix your career.

I know I'm judging this story without any reading or viewing experience, but I am totally clueless when it comes to these tales of supposed soul-searching experiences, especially when it comes to spending inordinate amounts of time away from the problems themselves.

She wasn't trying to fix her marriage, and she didn't have a career, she had a temp job that went permanent. She wanted to be a writer - but like many people we know, she found it difficult to find the courage and energy to finish something. So she picked a topic and gave herself a deadline, and began to write about her experiences.

Don't judge a book by its misinterpreted jacket copy. It's not a perfect book, but it was one of the only things that got me through the month of May.

And Alex, the movie may not be exactly for you, but Tom and I have seen it twice and (I'm outing my husband here) he expressed interest in seeing it a third time. I will own it, for sure. I wasn't bored by the Julie Powell parts at all - though in comparison, I am more entranced by the Julia Child parts. Meryl Streep is hard to resist.