The father of the documentary “Real Crime” returned with the movie Charles Manson Netflix

Real documentaries and documentation for crimes continue to thriveEspecially on Netflix. While subjects and topics may be different, virtually all these documents share a familiar formula: there will be spoken interviews, cut between the footage of archival news and stylish dramatic events. Most often, these entertainment also follows with a familiar formula: the faces of the actors that reflect the real figures usually obscure, and their movements often occur in slow motion for additional effect.

If you never thought why So many true materials of the crime adhere to this acquaintance approach that the answer can be traced back to “Herrola Morris”, which deals with the documentary in 1988 “The Tanny Blue Line”. Morris’s film followed the history of Randal Dale Adams, a man convicted of killing a police officer in Dallas. Morris’s film made it clear that Adams was innocent of the crime, and the documentary was so effective that he actually helped to lead Adams a year after the release.

While the “thin blue line” is highly respected these days, Morris’s movie was actually controversial when he first arrived. When Morris made a “thin blue line”, he decided to use a stylish, dramatic vacation of some events, and when modern viewers tend to think about such an approach as a standard (and even cliché) in a real documentary crime genre, while the film was released, this approach was very unusual. Some critics even claimed that the film was not considered a “real” documentary because it used so much rest. Nevertheless, despite all this, the film’s reputation increased only over the years after the release, and its approach to its material became very influential among other real criminal filmmakers.

From the influence of the “thin blue line”, Morris can be seen as the father of the true documentary genre of the crime – virtually every modern true doctor of crimes goes on its basis. Now Morris has returned to a brand new documentary “A true crime” that covers the topic that will be very familiar with the supporters: the murder of the Manson family.

But Morris Netflix’s new movie “Chaos: The Manson Chrumsers” does not tell the same old familiar story that was so popular Vincent Bulogosi and Kert Helter Sketer’s book. Instead, Morris is engaged in materials covering the book by Tom O’Nela and Dan Pipenbring “Chaos: Charles Manson, CIA, and the secret story of the sixties”, which offers a rather shocking conspiracy theory that may simply, maybe CIA Mind Control had something in common. “

Most people probably know the main details of Manson’s history. In the 1960s, a brief music called Charles Manson gathered the cult of mostly women’s hippies to form some commune in California. Hope to launch a racing war, Manson sent some of his followers for two nights in August 1969 to commit a number of horrific murders, including the murder of a pregnant actress Sharon Tate. While Manson did not physically commit none of these murders, he was regarded as the leader of the whole situation. Manson was ultimately sentenced to life imprisonment and died in 2017 while still imprisoned.

Manson still appears on the pop -culture landscape for various reasons. The crimes of his family, who came in 1969, signal the end of the Hippie Hippie era. The fact that the crimes was also taken away by the life of a young, beautiful (and pregnant) actress, also made them heavy feeds to consume the media, as well as the sensationalized lawsuit over Manson and his next. The book “Helter Skelter” only increased this attention, as in various other books and movies, including recent recent Quentin Tarantino “Once in Hollywood”, who dared to offer an alternative approach to history, in which Manson’s students were ultimately (and brutally) defeated before they could hurt anyone.

Despite so much media and pop -cultural events related to Manson, some unresolved issues are delayed in this case. The biggest question that seeks to ask again and again: “How?” How exactly, Charles Manson spoke with a bunch of children to commit a number of horrific murders? The general consensus, including among the members of the Manson family, is that Manson could somehow brainwash them. But again, the question remains: how?

In 1999, journalist Tom O’Nel was hired by Premiere to write about Manson’s killings. O’Nela had three months to serve a piece, but eventually he missed his term – and continued to dig. The final result of the work was the branched book “Chaos: Charles Manson, CIA and the secret story of the sixties”. I read this when I considered it fun, I also have to admit it gave me a little headache. O’Nela’s book is reduced in wild avenues and ultimately feels that the printed recreation of the famous word “Pepe Sylvia” from “Philadelphia is always sunny.”

O’NIL and co -author Dan Pipenbring supply that Manson’s murder had something in common with the Mkultra CIA program. Although it sounds like things with pulp fiction, Mkultra was very real: CIA really experimented with ways of managing people with drugs and other methods. The book “Chaos” tries to connect the points by drawing in a figure called Dr. Louis “Jolie” West, a psychiatrist working in the CIA that dangled in the Heaite-Eshbury area, while Manson was hiding, still collecting his family. The only problem is that despite all efforts, O’Ne could never connect Manson and West.

To make it clear, the book was never coming out and brazenly says something like: “Charles Manson worked with the CIA!” He simply notes that the alleged brainwasher, in which many hallucinogenic drugs participated, carries a strange resemblance to the work that the CIA was engaged in Mkultra. All this can be a coincidence. Or it may be something more ominous.

After reading the book, I was very interested to see how Morris decides the material “Chaos”. Disappointment, Morris approach is amazingly simple. The director worked with Netflix previously on the bottom and pretty shiny “Wormwood”, “ A mini -factory that mixed a documentary and fiction. This work felt at a real insurmountable (and like “chaos”, also Focused on potential CIA’s minds), while “chaos” is a more than a less standard true crime that teaches the case. Morris seems to be more interested in presenting a temporary event, not too deep in the weeds, and it is quite clear that the director does not acquire any of this.

“Do I believe that the Manson is programmed by the Manchurian candidate in Manchur, which is programmed for murder?” said the director The Guardian. “Not quite. Can it be proved? I don’t think so. But can it be challenged?

Although I want Morris to be a little more formally bold with this documentary, “Chaos” still creates an exciting watch that will leave you more than a few difficult questions.

“Chaos: Manson’s Murder” is held on Netflix on March 7, 2025.

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