Eat, Pray, Love, Leave: Orientalism Still Big Onscreen : NPR

I recently saw Eat, Pray, Love and left the theater with a greater understanding of only the first third of the mantra. I believe the emphasis was meant to be on the "Pray, Love" part, but I found greater meaning in the heaping plates of spaghetti than in any recreation of Western moments of Zen.

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For those of you who have not seen the movie or read the book, Eat, Pray, Love follows Liz as she travels through Italy, India, and Bali. The journey is meant to be a year-long process of self-rediscovery after a difficult divorce, but somehow turns into a contrived re-telling of everything we've ever allowed ourselves to believe about the East.

Here's a long overdue article about the subject of Orientalism and how it manifests itself subtly, and sometimes not so subtly, in our subconscious:

Eat, Pray, Love, Leave: Orientalism Still Big Onscreen : NPR

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