Wild Wild Country (2019)
Directed by: Maclain Way, Chapman Way
Executive Producers: Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass
Streaming on Netflix.
It is a 6-part docu-series based on the controversial religious cult leader Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, also known as Osho.
Docu-series is a super fun format to watch, it's of course because of the mind boggling stories and the worlds that they are capturing, and to the depths with which each episode and each cliffhanger takes us. Usually in documentary features, we don't see them going deeper into the story step by step - it's all laid out and they explore different facets of the world as the film goes - but in docu-series there are escalating emotions. Even with Don't Fuck With Cats and Tiger King, every episode was adding to the quirk of the world. Ma Anand Sheela is one of the most impactful grey characters I've seen in a long time, she is unapologetic, has a lot of conviction and is truly invested in the movement and she genuinely believes that they are going to change the world. I'm sure that experience would be one hell of an experience for her, at such a young age.
Starting communities with different lifestyles could actually be a good thing in this consumerist world - Epicurus started communes where friends would gather, eat simple food and do work that they enjoy doing - he believed that romantic/sexual relationships aren't necessary for happiness because a lot of people end up miserable in relationships whereas in friendships, it's way easier and he also believed that money and luxury wasn't needed too. He started a school of happiness, where they would explore how to be happy. I think communes have to go easy when they start, when they start with radical ideas and with such force - it's easy for them to fall out and break apart when something goes wrong. I think their idea to aggressively takeover cities and states entirely was something which disturbed others and brought unnecessary attention, had they gone easy on capturing cities - they probably would've sustained longer.
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