I don’t think I “got” this movie, but I also don’t think that the director (Jame Campion) gave her audience much of a chance with this mess of a story. The first part was very interesting – Kate Winslet is an Australian girl on vacation in India and ends up joining a cult. Her family manages to trick her back to Australia, and hire a cult exitist, P.J. (Harvey Keitel) to unbrainwash her. Winslet is good in the role and pretty much the only saving factor to the whole film. I couldn’t buy into the “love” story since it basically was Keitel taking advantage of an incredibly f-ed up young woman. Maybe that was the point, but the film came off as much more disturbing than profound.

I think she was happier when she was in the cult.