Keep Sweet

I am not sure I can finish this, they're interviewing these women that still fully believe in Warren Jeff. I kid you not, one of these women said "Uncle Warren just wanted to protect us" "the only thing he did that got some people agitated was to make us follow the rules" ... I am genuinely in disbelief. Way too much focus on the happy times and too little focus on this man having relations with children! I don't know if I should pity these women or blame them for letting these awful things happen right in front of their eyes and being brainwashed enough to sit here now and tell us how it was a magical time in their lives, like huuuh??????

I'm not sure why the rating is so low (a bit suspicious). It is a great documentary that makes us see that, even in the 21st century, there are still such serious human rights violations. I am very grateful to the brave survivors for making us see the atrocities that exist when people decide to use faith for their own benefit.

I specifically made an account to review this well after seeing the low rating. This was an excellent modern documentary on the FLDS & Warren Jeffs. I would have been interested in more than 4 episodes! I am so sad for the underaged girls and really all the people hurt and still hurting from this.

I did prefer the Netflix one for sure, this one I thought was an interesting contrast because it shows just how indoctrinated some women in this society are, that they can't and won't believe the accusations being made about warren jeffs. It's horrific tbh, but eye-opening when you think about why some women choose to stay or choose not to support the girls that have left.

At first I didn't think it was trying to validate the opinions those women have actually, especially because they do still show the material demonstrating how much of a monster jeffs is.

But then they started getting into the evictions and the consequences they were facing for everything that's gone on, and it was a little too sympathetic in my opinion. Especially when they started referring to it as a kind of "ethnic cleansing" I was like oh nah, you've lose me now sorry.

Other reviewers seem to be mixing this up with the Netflix show Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey which is excellent.

This is not that, this is based on the filmmaker taking a stance in favour of the cult and ignoring the horrific abuse.