Julie and Julia (2009)

Julie and Julia (2009)

5 word summary

New cook learns from legend

The storyline follows two women's stories about getting into the world of cooking. One: the unknown government worker Julie Powell and two: one of the most popular cooks of all time, Julia Child. The Julia Child story takes place in the late 40s when she first moves to France and wants to find a French cookbook in English. In time she goes to cooking schools and starts work on her own cooking empire, including books and TV shows. In the other storyline we follow Julie Powell, who works at a help line for 9/11 victims families and other things related to the attack. All her friends have success in one way or another and she wishes she could too. She wants to become an author and she decides that she should write a blog about something to get her writings read. She decides to cook her way through Julia Child's cookbook and blog about it, which becomes a difficult task as the year goes by.

Although It is technically two completely different stories, while next to each other they go together very well. They both are just starting cooking and writing and they both have problems come up from what they are trying to achieve (like having problems with their husbands, and the problems with finding people to care about there work) Not to make it sound better than it was, but I almost have to compare it to the greatest movie ever made; The Godfather part II. It may seem like a stretch when you read what the two are about but the way it is directed and edited are very similar. They both follow two generations of people that are both rising in the same "occupation," showing the similarities (and slight difference) in the way that they rose.

The film itself was made decently made. The directing was good but wasn't anything special but the editing and writing I thought made up for that. The acting was great, especially by Meryl Streep (but then again when isn't she) but also by Amy Adams. Some of the supporting cast was kind of weak but it didn't take too much from the film. I would suggest the film to anyone really, I think it might appeal more to women but I think many men will enjoy it too, and definitely anyone who enjoys Meryl Streep.