Julia Roberts plays the film's main character, a woman who is inexplicably miserable because, even though she is in her late 30s, she has no idea what she wants out of life or who she is. So she sets off around the world to figure out why that is. And it's true -- it is very hard to understand why she's so miserable! She is a rich, talented, privileged, white, skinny, arguably beautiful person with amazing, close friends and an adorable husband who just loves her so much. But he's not perfect, so being the immature monster she is, she decides she's not happy and divorces him and leaves everything behind to go on vacation for a year (she is that rich -- she can just up and go on an international vacation for a year) to "be happy," which, ugh.

Domestic dissatisfaction is a very real thing that happens to real women validly, but this character is not exactly Betty Draper -- she had every resource to work on her marriage and herself without making this the rest of the world's problem. An adult doesn't need to mop floors in some spiritual Indian retreat for rich Western assholes to find out that husbands can't possibly be 100% perfect, and that it's unrealistic and unhealthy to expect to be "happy" all the time. This woman doesn't need India; she needs some damn perspective. This woman sucks.

And the whole world-travel thing is just done so shallowly and half-assed that she just kind of wanders from country to country, speaking in bumper stickers about how fulfilled she is from the experience, but since this movie has no soul, it's all telling and no showing. And though I haven't read the book, I'd believe this woman is really like this, because I know a zillion New Yorkers like this. The way she acts in this movie is exactly why people hate rich white people -- "Oh how lovely of you all to cure me of my addiction to superficial bullshit with your interesting little cultures and charming wise men with no teeth!" It's so condescending and, even worse, offensively disingenuous. Originally, I was going to compare her to Carrie Bradshaw in the way that she is way too old to be such a petulant child, but at least Carrie Bradshaw owned her shallow, immature existence by devoting all her time to putting on $5,000 tutus and giant flower bows and shit. That girl may not have known what she wanted, but at least she didn't have to insult entire countries to try to figure it out.

So, I really, really hated this movie. Possibly even more than I expected to! It is truly awful.

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