Thoughts on Holy Hell

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The Movie I watched for this project is Holy Hell (2014) dir. Will Allen. This documentary explains Allens time in a spiritual group called Buddahfest. While I was watching this film I found a few things that I would say disturbed me. One in particular was when they were doing the transfer of energy from the master. The scene of the girl getting this performed and her  seeming in pain and afterwards falling to the ground is so strange to me. There a point where David Christopher is explaining his experience with this and he says he begins to convulse. It confuses me how one man could have so much power over somebody. 

Another thing that disturbed me was when Michele had to leave in fear of his group being called a cult and he took only a few people with him. It was very weird to see the the video messages his other followers sent to him. You can see in their face how brainwashed they were and how much they really did believe this man was sent from God himself. It really confuses me how much they really trusted this man. 

Mainly in the beginning of the film the ex members of this group make it sound so great and inviting in reality they were being brainwashed. They put so much faith in him, and even had the members cut off ties with other friends and family. I remember how Michele would not let a member go see her dying father and her buying a plane ticket to see him and then not going and just crying. It is something I will simply never understand because I will never experience it. 



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