Julie & Julia

25/07/20

On this Tuesday after a rather hodge podgy day. Such days go like - the anxiety is high; the things are unorganized and one is looking to do things but cannot. The best thing in this time is to read a book or watch a movie. Better options like walking and running are out of scope for now.

So, Netflix it was and on stream I put Julie & Julia. A nicely threaded story about two women with  separated in age by years. They both share a void in life and take up cooking: one for hobby and other to prove for herself that she could finish something. To say that cooking is cathartic is the biggest undersell of it. Its sheer rejuvenation of senses and most worthy of service to a human being. The satisfaction of getting something done and share the sheer delight of it is an experience.

Alternating between two  life story in a very flowy, smartly edited and very well acted & directed movie navigates the central theme of finding a goal. How one can step by step reach the nirvana of his or her own creation. The direction less Julie becomes the in control of her destiny Julie and then goes on to even face rejection of Julia with aplomb.

What adds to gravitas is that this is a true story (admittedly some part dramatized) with books by both of them published in US. One has become the bible of French cooking and other is used by the motivation speakers as case study.

In Aghor world (my basic understanding pardon me if I am wrong) choosing an astral person as your guide, icon is a suggested way to walk the path of one’s salvation. Here Julie got  Julia in real world (in a book admittedly) which worked for her. Whichever ways one treads real, astral or any other One needs to find person, idea to learn from and make the necessary adjustments in the day to day living to reach the goal.

For example, the Julie works in a call center helping World trade center victims (must be quite strenuous to talk to a suffering person every single day of work) and then commutes to her home in suburban Queens in NY. Post all this hum drum to make time and space to cook 524 dishes in 365 days and write about it in the blog. Just imagine one doing this in pre Covid lifestyle of wake-up commute work commute eat and sleep routine.

I am quite sure such stories would be hidden in our society also but our media & movie world  is obsessed with an imaginary society which does not exist. So it never publishes anything remotely similar to this. We get extremes either we are about to belly up or we have become world beaters.

Coming back to movie both of them found fame, happiness and more important found contentment in real world.

Do search on Internet for Julie Child and Julia Powell.

Last but not the least the Julie is played by Meryl Streep. One can watch movie just for her, she makes it all so easy.

So pick your passion an start walking to your salvation.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_%26_Julia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Child