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Actors: Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Holy Smoke |
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When young and beautiful Australian Ruth Barron (Kate Winslet) heads off to India on a spiritual journey she becomes enchanted with a religious guru. Charmed by the guru, Ruth joins his cult-like following and plans to return to India to be part of a group marriage ceremony to her guru. Desperate to get their daughter out of the clutches of the cult, Ruth's parents hire a cult deprogrammer, PJ Waters (played by Harvey Keitel), to deprogram Ruth. Ruth is taken to a remote, desert hideaway in the outback where she will be living with PJ and starting the process of deprogramming. Ruth is resentful, angry and extremely hostile to PJ. PJ, who is used to dealing with all kinds of situations, is thrown for a loop by Ruth. Never in his life has he met such a wild and unpredictable individual. Ruth is a brilliant individual, one who knows just how to manipulate and play mind games with PJ. And PJ, who is trying to break the cult's control over Ruth's mind, finds himself struggling to maintain his composure without totally going off the deep end. As Ruth and PJ battle for control and PJ begins to lose his tenuous grip on sanity, total chaos erupts in the desert as Ruth tries to escape from the hideaway.
--sandra calhoune, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Holy Smoke |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Religion themed film?
Yes
Kind of religion story
- cult (watch out for the cool aid!)
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- red
Hair type
- (woman) long straight
Body type
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average build
Unclothed?
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- an organization
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Setting
Desert?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- licking
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
- seeing full frontal--women
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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