I am one of these people – there are many of us – who always wakes up for Charles Manson. There was a lot! All documentaries and drama. Not to mention the special TV shows, both Prestige and Tabloid, broadcast interviews with Manson Acolytes such as Tex Watson and Patricia Krenwinkel, and epic -sized TV interviews with Charlie himself, such as Charson Rose in 1986, “then”. To “Manson” Jeff Jin to the writer who still finds out all the studies of Manson, “Hiltter Sketer” from Vincent Pogliusi, the best -selling crime book in history (seven million copies).
The Manson epic has been drilled from every corner. However, I am always open to any new beam of light that can be thrown into its darkness. So I sat to watch “Chaos: The Manson Murders”, a new documentary for Netflix, directed by Errol Morris (“The Fog of War”, “The Thin Blue Line”), with what I describe as a kind of skeptical curiosity. Looking at what the director’s famous director is Morris, I thought: There should be something new here. Or why do you do that? However, is there really anything new to discover?
“Chaos” gives a profound, ideological glow for contemporary documentary films, with a good amount of pictures that I have not seen before from the places of crime scenes in Manson: the snapshot sometimes of the body of slaughter, as well as the images that were abandoning that room, there was those that talked about the words.
What is the latest of photographs, is the processing of art and banning, Morris releases the entire movie. “Chaos” is full of unimaginable coffee book drawings, and such touches as a shot of the Mescaline aloe vera or close to the sparkling richness (to accompany the story about how the police discovered a servant photography, this could be in the movie “Gary Hinan”, or they can hear. Nan. The pictures are often black and white, but part of the image will have a red dye, or the images will be doubled, for this secret feeling.
It is a kind of tempting, but let’s be clear: all of this is to take off Manson clothes. What is really new is that Morris, the construction of the movie about an interview with Tom O’Neil, author of “CHAOS: Charles Manson, CIA, and secret history in the 1960s”, explores the conspiracy theory about the Manson epic that seeks to explain the most mysterious and chased element. Which is: How could the brain of the family members who killed – these four “girls” besides the side of Tex Watson (who did most of them already) – to drop to such brutality?
We know that this is what happened. We know the myths that were built around it-that Manson was a criminal in the twisted streets that took advantage of the new youth culture to turn themselves into a garbage version of the leader of the worshipers, using psychological tactics of pimping from skiing on the front from his followers through the huge doses of LSD, to recycle his theory of “white surface skiing”. The “pigs” that will be led by the black revolutionaries) as if it were demonic Christian education. About his followers to Believers Those who will do anything for him literally.
But Tom O’Neil believes this course of events is full of holes. He is the person who will fill them. Because he has a theory – oh, does he have a theory. This man is a job. He has no evidence – he has intuition. This is what his palm wishes as cutting the great puzzle of everything.
O’Neill is a former entertainment journalist, in 1999, a mission from Premiere magazine to write about how to change TATE -lanca murders in Hollywood; He quietly ended in a rabbit hole. The essence of O’Neill’s theory is that he invented a way to link Manson’s murders on the dark dark side of the CIA. He discovered how to take this legendary chapter of ultraviolet madness and link it to … the man.
The O’Neill concentration is the CIA fast program known as MKULTRA, which was launched in 1953 and lasted for 20 years. (It was so dignified that its records were often destroyed in 1973.) MKUTRA was the ongoing experience of the agency in mind, which was rooted in what could be done with hallucinogenic drugs, and the use of university research centers, most of which had no idea that they were working at the CIA. LSD experiments had multiple dimensions, but one of the main aspects of them is that the CIA wanted to know if LSD could be used to produce programmed killers. This idea, which is the behavior modification of a scientific part and part, was in the air at the time (it is amazingly dealt with in the 1962 movie “The Manchurian Collidate”). Thus, you can say that there is an overlap between what the CIA was doing in its subversive warehouses and what Charles Manson was doing with his sermons and drugs on the Span farm. But was there a verbatim communication?
Here’s as much as it goes. Manson was released from prison in 1967, and the conditional release was violated by traveling to San Francisco and settled in the Hight Ashbari scene. This is where the followers will be attracted to the family. Manson spent a lot of time at the Hight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic, most of them because his girls suffered reproductive disease. But the CIA also created an office there. Lewis used “Jolie” West, a psychiatrist who is deeply involved in MKULTRA (known to present an interview with Lee Harvey Oswald Ait “Jack Ruby” before the trial of Ruby’s killing), in the clinic to recruit topics for his studies in LSD and youth. He described the place as a “disguised laboratory as a fool’s crash.”
But did you meet West and Manson before? O’Neill admits that he has never found evidence or testimony of Julie West and Charlie Manson in the same room. But he got enough of intuition To suggest that Charlie has learned the techniques of controlling the mind from the CIA.
Due to the lack of actual evidence of this, Morris fills the documentary with dozens of shadows, which always means that it finds new details and angles – for example, exploring Manson’s music profession, and the extent of Charlie already near the registration contract decline. Through his friendship with Dennis Wilson, there is already Manson’s song, “Stop Porting”, in the Bush Boys album in 1969 “20/20”. The truth is that Manson had a singing voice to know the leadership of Ya’i. Perhaps strange things of this strange stake occurred turning into one wonder.
But when the music producer, Terry Milsher, came to Span Ranch to give Manson a test, I loved the songs of Charlie’s songs, but he said: “I don’t know what to do with you.” So Charlie approached, but not close enough. This was a major motivation to kill Manson, on the first night in which she was erected at the house that Manson believed the house of Terry Milsher.
But we passed all this before. In the movie “CHAOS”, Errol Morris makes his way via Manson back, which is now confused in the spices of conspiracy theory. Here is a man named Bernard Crowe shot him (and thought, wrongly, he was killed) because Charlie believes that Crowe was the Black Tiger. Here is Susan Atkins, the charming WASP WASP game for Manson followers, talking in an old interview about how she is exposed to her Wtx Watson in the speed of killing the Sharon Tate night (the drug worker is a major part of the interpretation of how girls can see the stabs that she was doing “form”). Here’s a theory, Bobby Busoulil presented in a new interview with Morris, to the extent that Charlie was so mad that he was afraid that one of his followers was taking him out, so he organized murders to make sure that everyone was very complicit.
Finally, this is the most fragile Tom O’Neill theory: that the way Vincent Pogliosis was combined together the sweat/pig/pork warfare in “myths” from “Hiltter Sketer”, in what was one of the killing acts that were not limited to anyone, there was just actions from anyone who was limited to anyone. Something he reached … to sell books! The “chaos” ends with the suggestion that Manson’s murders were a major conspiracy, which was organized from the top (by the CIA? The deep state? Nixon?) To turn America against counter -culture. I don’t think this theory is for a second, but there is one way I think it remains realistic for the spirit of Charles Manson: It is a pure madness.