Monday, May 01, 2006

Jonestown documentary

John and I saw this documentary film on Jonestown. It was riviting and incredibly well edited.

Created by Stanley Nelson, founder of Firelight Media.
As this was part of the San Francisco Film Festival (put on by the San Francisco Film Society), the director Stanley Nelson held a Q&A. As part of this Q&A he brought in Jim Jones Jr. (Jim Jones' son - adopted).

Though they both felt that it answered the question of why 906 people would 'drink the kool-aid', i felt that it was lacked in resolving that question. In many instances opening up other questions. However, I believe that it told this story with a degree of sensitivity and emotional truth that I had not seen in a Jonestown documentary before.

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