Documentary films about real crime and documents continue to advanceEspecially on Netflix. While the subjects and topics available may be different, almost all of these documents have a well -known formula: Head interviews will be discussed, reduced among archive news and stylish dramatic event recreations. More often than not, these recreations follow a well -known formula: the faces of the actors showing real figures are usually covered, and their movements often occur with slow movement for additional effect.

If you've ever wondered Why So much real crime material adheres to this famous approach, the answer can be forwarded back to Erol Morris documentary, in 1988 the "thin blue line". Morris' film followed the story of Randall Dale Adams, a man convicted of killing a police officer in Dallas. Morris's film made it clear that Adams was innocent for the crime, and the documentary was so effective that it actually helped bring Adams an exzing a year after its release.

While the "thin blue line" is being held in a great sense these days, Morris' film was actually controversial when it first arrived. When Morris made the "thin blue line", he chose to use stylish, dramatic recreations at certain events, and while modern viewers tend to think about this approach as a standard (and even cliché) in the genre of a true crime documentary, when the film was released. Some critics even claimed that the film did not consider it a "real" documentary because it used so many recreations. And yet, despite all this, the reputation of the film has only increased in the years of its publication, and its approach to its material has become very influential among other direct crime directors.

Due to the influence of the "thin blue line", Morris can be considered as the father of the genre of the documentary film "True Crime" - virtually every modern real crime document follows his plan. Now, Morris has returned with a brand new documentary about real crime, covering a topic that will be very well known to affinities: the killings of the Manson family.

But Morris' new Netflix film, "Chaos: Munson Killings," does not tell the same old -known story that was so popular by Vincent Bugliosi's book and Kurt Gentri "Helter Skelter". Instead, Morris deals with the material covered by Tom O'Neal's book and Pipelbring Dan "Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties", which offers a pretty shocking conspiracy theory that suggests, perhaps, CIA's mind control.

Most people probably know the basic details of the story of Manson. In the 1960s, a short, Vanabe musician named Charles Manson collected a cult of mostly female hippies to form a kind of commune in California. Hoping to start a race race, Manson sent some of his followers over two nights in August 1969 to commit a series of horrible killings, including the murder of pregnant actress Sharon Tate. Until Manson did none of these killings, he was considered the head of the whole situation. Manson was eventually sentenced to life in prison and died in 2017 while still imprisoned.

Manson is still onoms over the landscape of pop culture for a variety of reasons. The crimes of his family, coming in 1969, signaled a kind of end to the era of free Hipube hippie. The fact that the crimes also took the lives of a young, beautiful (and pregnant) actress also made heavy fodder for media consumption, as well as the sensationalized examination of Manson and his following. The book "Helter Scalter" has only increased this attention, as well as various other books and films, including recent Quentin Tarantino "Once, long ago in Hollywood," What dared to offer an alternative approach to history in which they eventually (and violently) were defeated primarily (and violently) before they could hurt someone.

Despite so many media and pop culture covering Manson's events, a few unanswered questions arise around the case. The biggest question that tends to be asked over and over is: "How?" How exactly did Charles Manson talk a bunch of kids in committing a series of horrible killings? The common consensus, including among the members of the Manson family, is that Manson was somehow able to wash the brain. But again, the question lasts: how?

In 1999, journalist Tom O'Neal was hired by the magazine premiered to write about Manson's killings. O'Neill had three months to bear the piece, but in the end, he missed his time - and was constantly digging. The end result of O'Neal's work was the widespread book "Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the secret history of the sixties." I read it, I found it for a while as fascinating, I must also admit that it gave me a little headache. O'Neal's book descends on some wild roads and ends up feeling like printed recreation of the word of the famous "Pepe Silvia" a moment of "is always sunny in Philadelphia".

In the book, O'Neill and co-writer Dan Piperbring assume that Manson's killings will have a chance to have a relationship with the infamous CIA MUCULA program. While it sounds like working on pulp fantasy, Muscultra was very real: The CIA has really experimented with ways to control people's mind through drugs and other methods. The book "Chaos" is trying to connect the points by drawing a figure named Dr. Lewis "Ololi" West, a CIA psychiatrist who was hanging out in the Hite-Esbury area around the time Manson was lurking, was still collecting his family. The only problem is that despite his best efforts, O'Neal has never been able to connect Manson and West.

To be clear, O'Neal's book never goes out right and obviously says something like, "Charles Manson worked with the CIA!" He simply points out that Manson's alleged brainwashing of his family, which includes huge amounts of hallucinogenic drugs, carries a striking resemblance to the work CIA has done with Muslsa. All this could be a coincidence. Or it can be something more evil.

I read the book, I was very iousubopite to see how Morris would handle the material of the "chaos". Disappointing, Morris's approach is surprisingly clear. The director has worked with Netflix previously on the lower and fairly brilliant "Wormwood", "" Minits that mixed documentaries and fiction. That job felt really important (and, like "chaos", Also Focused on potential elements of CIA's mind control), while "chaos" is a more or less standard document of real crime that sets the case. Morris seems to be more interested in presenting the timeframe of events, rather than getting too deep into the weeds of things to control the mind, and it is quite clear that the director does not buy any of them.

"Do I believe Manson was programmed by Muslsa, by the Government - a candidate for Mandzurian programmed to kill?" Said the director The Guardian. "It's not really. Can it prove?

While I wish Morris be a bit more formal bold with this documentary, "Chaos" still makes an attractive watch that will leave you with more than a few unpleasant questions.

"Chaos: Manson's killings" streamed on Netflix on March 7, 2025.

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