A girl from Australia Ruth (Kate Winslet) travels in India and is attracted by some mysterious power. There seems to be a perfect world, no evil, no sorrow, no hatred, only beauty, she has no thoughts. Gu Di chose to stay and follow the master.
Does perfection really exist in the world? When something, whether spiritual or material, is portrayed to the other extreme, we all need to be careful. From a systematic point of view, things always have both yin and yang sides and are always in motion.
A world of extreme beauty may be an illusion. This is precisely the trick of a cult or a psychological pyramid scheme, which traps people who are indiscriminate or who are facing desperation, and are willing to give their souls to others to dominate.
Ruth's choice made her mother far away in Australia extremely anxious. She hired a spiritual counselor Waters with a high salary to bring her daughter back to reality from the cult. It is said that this spiritual counselor almost never fails. The parents devised a plan. On the grounds that the father was seriously ill, the mother went to India and brought her daughter back.
It seems that Ruth is not too deep into the play, at least she still thinks of her parents, otherwise unless she is tied back, she will never give up.
The spiritual counselor Waters' first strategy is to isolate her. An independent hut in the wilderness was the place where the two of them lived for three days. Cut off all contact with the outside world and only arrange for the spiritual counselor to be alone with Ruth.
Ruth is hostile to this arrangement. The extremely holy place in her heart formed a great contrast with the real life environment. Friends promiscuous, drug abuse, father cheating, self-willing to sink in the past, life has no purpose, and lifelessness, of course she does not want to return to that bad reality.
Ruth refuses to communicate with the spiritual counselor, and seems to be invulnerable. Preaching is completely useless, even if the facts are presented, such as how they treat baby girls, when they find that they are girls, they rush to the sewer. Ruth thinks this is frank and truthful, even for women. Hate is also willing to express it truthfully.
The spiritual counselor started the second step strategy, which is to discard all things related to her beliefs, including books, shawls and other items. The most meaningful thing is to peel off the white sari she was wearing on the pilgrimage and hang it on a tree. This made Ruth furious, but she seemed helpless.
Waters implemented his third step when she was isolated and became confused about her past. Take Lutie home to watch a documentary about the cult with her family. On the one hand, let her look at what she believes in from another perspective. In addition to the good side you see, there is actually an ugly side. On the other hand, let her get support and love from her family.
Is the world we see real? Our world is constructed by ourselves. When we regard the world depicted by a cult as real, then we are more willing to stay in such a world, because human nature pursues love and goodness, and the cult constructs such a world, even if it may be dedicated to it. Life is not hesitating.
The world we construct is only what we think, because of our own limitations, we can't get a glimpse of the whole world. This is the effect of Ruth in the movie after watching the video. That was a subversive change, which was actually destroying the world built by past attachments. At that moment, Ruth collapsed.
What follows is a bottomless indulgence. She was invited to a party by a friend. At the party, she drank and reveled without boundaries, letting strange men run wild on her body, completely in a state of madness.
On that night, Ruth's internal system collapsed and her confusion caused Waters as the healer to be disturbed by the chaos. He broke through his boundaries and had sex with her. After the clouds and rain, when the sun rose as usual, Ruth seemed to return to her senses. She lit the white sari, which symbolized her pure faith, and started to burn with the wind. This burning image seems to be trying to destroy her inner persistence.
Ruth has a projection in her heart. All men are unreliable, they are not sincere to her, they are just attracted by her beauty, and they just want to possess her physically. Although the spiritual counselor vowed to say that not all men have desires for her, and what Waters did later did accomplish this projective identification.
When Ruth kept trying to seduce Waters, he was caught. In psychotherapy, there will indeed be erotic empathy, or patients will use various methods to seduce the therapist, subconsciously, it is to complete such projective identification. If the therapist really thinks that the patient is in love with him, it is actually just wishful thinking in a specific situation.
The therapist is also a human and has seven emotions and six desires. If the therapist establishes a relationship with the patient other than the consultation relationship, such as sexual relationship, lover relationship, and friend relationship, this treatment must be a failure, because the therapist is depriving the patient of certain rights .
When the therapist is aware of his own countertransference, he will make the right choice: when he can’t hold it, he will choose to referral to avoid the actual relationship between the patient and the opposite sex in the treatment room. Repeatedly.
As shown in the movie, there is a sexual relationship between the therapist and the patient. When the therapist and the patient cross the boundary, aside from ethics, at the relationship level, it is both for the patient and the therapist. Destructive: For the therapist, this destruction is the ruin of his career; for the patient, she is actually being used.
After Waters had a relationship with Ruth, he was in a state of complete loss of control. He seemed to be controlled by lust, showing a psychotic state. He lost his self-organization system, no matter how Ruth teased him. He, insulted him, he just begged Ruth not to leave him, even asked to marry him, and he was still married.
When the internal system of two people has been destroyed and a new system has not been constructed, apart from the sexual relationship between animals, it is actually difficult to have love between the two people. This is also where Ruth is confused. When Waters and Ruth had sex for the first time, Ruth asked if there was love between them? Waters said, you have an orgasm too. Is there love when there is orgasm? This is obviously a paradox.
The story of the movie design itself is so awake, the lone man and woman in the same room, one sexy, the other unclear, the role of hormones will definitely make two people undergo some drastic changes. When Waters describes his experience, it is not difficult to see that his attitude towards emotions is also vacillating. He allows his wife to have extramarital sex, and he also has extramarital sex. This incomplete relationship pattern has led to There was no way to grasp the boundary between him and Ruth.
Of course, the final turn was unexpected. After the last two people were mentally out of control, the style of the movie changed at the end. Both of them were finally healed in a loving relationship: Ruth helped her mother leave her cheating father and returned to India, starting her real life. As a member of an animal protection organization, he participated in the work of saving animals; while Waters was taken home by his wife and later raised a child. Under the care of the family, he returned to normal.
Ruth was with Waters, going from heaven to land, and finally back to the world. Love is a magical existence. There may be love in a beautiful paradise, but that kind of nothingness seems to be unable to bring us nourishment. Only through the relationships with people around us can we experience true love. It seems that this kind of true love cannot be found in empty practice.
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