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What Dreams May Come
a. Themes: Life and Death, Adventure and Dream, Love and Lost
b. 情定日落橋

Eat Pray Love vs. Under the Tuscan Sun
a. Eat Pray Love (2010)
"Liz had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having - a husband, a house, a successful career - yet like so many others, she found herself lost, confused, and searching for what she realy wanted in life. Newly divorced and at a crossroads, Gilbert steps out of her comfort zone, risking everything to change her life, embarking on a journey around the world that becomes a quest for self-discovery. In her travels, she discovers the true pleasure of nourishment by eating in Italy; the power of prayer in India, and, finally and unexpectedly, the inner peace and balance of true love in Bali." - IMDb

b. Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
"Frances is a San Francisco based literature professor, literary reviewer and author, who is struggling in writing her latest book. Her outwardly perfect and stable life takes a turn when her husband files for divorce as he wants to marry the woman with who he is having an affair, the infidelity and marital problem of which Frances was unaware. An Frances not being wealthy herself. She he wants to keep the house. Frances eventually accepts her best friend Patti's offer of a vacation, a gay tour of Tscany which Patti and her lesbian partner Grace originally puchased for themselves before Patti found out that she is pregnant. The gift is a means to escape dealing with the divorce, from which Patti feels Frances may never recover emotionally without some intervention. Feeling that Patti's assessment may be correct in that she has too much emotional baggage ever to return to San Francisco." - IMDb

c. How to deal with your solitude
d. Move away from the comfort zone
e. Life offers you thousand chances all we have to do is take one. Just do it.

Differences
a. Motivation of leaving (Recovery vs. Discovery)
b. Attitude toward love (Search for love vs. Learn to love)
c. Change of personality (Passive à Aggressive vs. Aggressive à Passive)

Similarities
a. Themes (leave and go, to live in the moment, child-like enthusiasm, self-discovery)
b. Point of View (first person)
c. Plot development (episodic, 沒有太大的起伏非常的平穩)

Reflection

a. Be polite and introduce yourself so they can be introduced themselves to you.
b. 沈澱後才能往心裡面再放東西
c. 原諒自己才能往下走
d. 想要太多會生病
e. 人家古蹟不會跑我們連水都沒有，命不同生，活的方式也不會一樣
f. Let go of yourself (hope, enlightenment, passion)