Here’s another great performance by Meryl Streep, who portrays a non-fictional person Julia Child in Paris, in the 1950s. Her story is only half of the movie, the other half is about Julie Powell (Amy Adams) in present day, who writes a blog about Julia’s cookbook.
Even though the subject of this story is cooking, it didn’t feel boring to me (I don’t cook, I only eat) because it was more about the characters and how they relate to cooking. Also there is one more aspect of it that I feel close to: blogging.
Julie’s thoughts about starting a blog and continue to write it were interesting to me, since I also blog. Of course my blog is not read by anybody since it’s not that interesting, but I still share some opinions with Julie.
I like that at the end we don’t get the Hollywood happy ending with the two characters meeting and having a great time, but that’s not thanks to a great script, it’s just what happened in reality. But at least they didn’t change it.
This is a fun little movie, nothing too deep or outstanding.
Rating: 2.5 Stars