A good movie

Since I really enjoyed ‘Wild Wild Country’, I was quite eager to check this follow-up focusing on Ma Anand Sheela. Well, many will probably complain that nothing much really happened and that you eventually learn nothing new about what happened back then in the 80’s in the Rajneeshpuram community. However, I thought it was quite fascinating to see Sheela 35 years after these events took place and, in my opinion, she is still one of the most charismatic women I have ever seen. If she is evil or not, that’s a complete different matter and you won’t find out with this documentary. It was also quite interesting that, on one hand, she really wants to move on, that people finally let go of her troubled and even scandalous past but, on the other hand, she is still craving the attention and she still loves it when people hang on her lips every time she has to tell some pseudo philosophical or spiritual riddle. Anyway, after all these years, she is still trying to sell a specific image of herself and how far it deviates from the truth, we will never know. By the way, some of her statements didn’t always make sense. For example, she argued that when someone has done their sentence, they are actually innocent again but that’s actually not true at all. In this case, this person did purge their debts to society but a convict will remain a convict all their life, except if a new trial find them not guilty. Concerning the rest of the documentary, well, no one else involved had anything interesting to say and all these interviews were rather asinine, I’m afraid. Anyway, to conclude, even if the damned thing was nothing really amazing, it was still a decent watch and I think it is worth a look. 

7/10