There’s a few travel-themed movie trailers I’ve seen recently that have been interesting. Many people have recommended I read Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love because she travels around the world experiencing life. Although the character lives the life of an ex-pat and not so much that of a traveler, it is a good read. I assumed it would eventually make it to the big screen but I’m a little surprised to see Julia Roberts playing the lead. This trailer focuses a lot on the small part of the book that covers her life before travel. I hope that the film turns out to focus more on the interesting adventures she had on the road.
The second trailer, for Babies, is interesting from a cultural perspective. Comparing the first year of life of a child in Namibia, Mongolia, Japan and The United States would be fascinating, I imagine, because of the similarities and differences.
My favorite bit is at the end when an animal grazing outside a yurt in Mongolia walks up to the door, sticks its head inside and drinks out of the bath tub while the baby watches. It reminds me of the family we stayed with in the Gobi desert who let their baby waddle around the stone-covered desert. He fell down every few minutes but would stand up, not shedding a tear. All of us Westerners, from Europe and the U.S., agreed that a Western baby would have cried over any one of those falls. Growing up in a yurt in Mongolia must toughen a kid up quickly.