Jonestown Apologists Alert:
Director Stanley Nelson’s editing tricks in his “Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s Temple” easily sent nearly every movie critic swooning, yet another reminder about film’s power over those ignorant of history.
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In Nelson’s 90-minute window dressing, this group of brainwashed people that burned little children with cattle prods – for years, in California, while the “crusading media” did nothing has a whole lot more than “vibrant” attached to it.
Here are some of Nelson’s sweetened-up interview samplings: „”..People’s Temple truly had the potential to be something big – something powerful” “As soon as I walked in (the Temple), I was home””…Every single person felt like they had a role there.” Everyone felt like they were exceptionally special…” “There were many reasons to love, admire, overlook, and excuse the things Jim did.”
Yes. Of course. while a gang of your fellow cultists are electro-shocking your five year-old for being “naughty, you just keep countin’ ALL the heart-wrenching reasons to admire the great social activist, “Father” Jones. This wasn’t a big problem, though, because this early version of the rainbow coalition was a product of mind control and outright terror by Jones’ “Angels of Death” (his gun-toting enforcers).
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