A room with a view

    

      This movie was really good and it does have a relationship with travelling and journeys but I think it has more to do with personal journeys and decisions. The main character Lucy has to make personal decisions about her life which she is really struggling about but all of her problems begin with a trip that she made with her cousin Charlotte to Italy. They both arrived there as tourists with no concerns but to have a room with a view. They did not go there with any purpose but Charlotte did find out how travelers are like through a writer that helped her see Italy a little bit differently and Lucy did find something in Italy that she did not expected: Love. 

      I liked a lot one of the phrases a resident told Lucy when she told him she was a tourist. The man said that residents pity tourist because they do things unconsciously. He stated that they just want to see specific places that they have in mind and get done with the place and leave as soon as possible. I think this is the main difference between a tourist and a traveler. A traveler is very open minded and wants to see the place where he is going in every way possible and learn and acquire an experience or a sense of satisfaction from it, he or she goes there with a purpose to fulfill. Meanwhile a tourist is only passing by and seeing what a tourist always sees when he or she goes to these places but they don't acknowledge the experience or get something out of it.

      Lucy's personal journey has a lot of factors involved but her main problem is that she is engaged to a man when she reencounters with her love from Italy. She struggles throughout the movie with if she should marry this man that she is engaged to but knows she doesn't truly love or if she should leave him for her true passionate love from Italy. This man from Italy named George was a traveler in London where Lucy lived and his purpose was clearly to find her even if he did not quite know it. When Lucy finally makes her decision to leave Cecil her fiancé she wants to travel just to escape from this reality, which is another factor why tourist also travel. But Mr. Emerson stops her and she meets again with George. Then they travel together and were extremely happy and in love.