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Beauvoir The Guru Analysis
Beauvoir's concepts are applied to two different relationships that play a central role in the movie's plot, namely between the guru Baba and Ruth as well as P.J. and the female protagonist. The former relation develops when Ruth first travels to India with her friends. By touching her forehead, the protagonist is put immediately in a trance by the guru. Ruth changes her whole lifestyle, her clothes, her name and stays in India because she thinks that without Baba's presence her life would be completely meaningless. The guru can be classified as the Subject while Ruth is rather objectified. Baba is what Beauvoir calls the Essential One who knows everything about the world and is the centre of meaning and of Ruth's life. The protagonist is part of a bigger group who admires and worships Baba.
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