Anu Hämäläinen is grateful for the corona because it brought care to her life.
Anu’s wish is to go to South America to study medicinal plants. In the picture, he is under the influence of ayahuasca. Over
Anu Hämäläinen and Juha Kulmala have been friends for over 15 years. Ina Mikkolan in a three-part documentary Into the deep end let’s follow how it goes between them when the other one starts to believe in an alternative reality.
The two have become friends on the set of the Beauty and the Nerd reality show. Since then, Juha has become a sports center coordinator and Anu a healer who participates in indigenous ceremonies in South America in a documentary. They include ayahuasca. It is a psychoactive drink that affects consciousness.
The documentary tells that Ayahuasca is an illegal drug in Finland. In Brazil, for example, its use is allowed. Juha has never heard of the substance, but Anu is very familiar with it.
At home, Anu says that she works as a healer who has lived several lives. Over
In the rainforest, Anu is also under the influence of a substance called kambo.
– Kambo is practically frog poison. Small holes are burned into the surface of the skin, where the poison is put, Anu says in the program.
As a result, Anu vomits furiously, which she thinks is a cleansing reaction. There’s more going on.
– My face is completely swollen. I can’t talk now. I’m all swollen and numb. This has never happened in Kambo before, Anu admits to the camera.
After returning to Finland, Anu ends up in isolation and IV in the hospital’s infection department. He was taken there by ambulance. The purpose is to rule out exotic diseases such as malaria and yellow fever. Anu suffers from severe back and lower limb pain.
– In the end, no jungle diseases were found. But then they found the crown.
Anusta has felt bad about how her corona-related updates have been treated on social media. Over
Anu has not taken corona vaccinations, which is why the trip to Brazil has been canceled once. In the documentary, he has previously read aloud the Facebook update he shared, in which the corona pandemic is claimed to be a lie created for political purposes. After getting sick, Anu will not return to this post. Instead, he says that he is grateful for the corona.
– I have wished for more care and concern in my life. That’s all this has been since my return from the jungle. This disease did not come to me in vain.
– In the hospital, I got to experience everything that I had missed for a long time. I came to be seen, I was well taken care of. Everyone treated me with great empathy and love.
The sometimes hard-to-swallow documentary deals more with Anu’s life than Juha’s. Anu is also clearly more vocal, while Juha has the role of a listener, and also an apologist. The man does not share the same worldview as Anu, but he still does not reject her. Until the end, Juha tries to understand his friend as best he can.
To the deep end today on TV2 at 22:25 & Areena. See all TV programs and broadcast times in Telku’s TV guide.