It is very difficult to write about something as strong as the case of La Luz del Mundo, and also very tortuous to come across documentaries that you wish were not reality, but they are.
Carlos Perez Osorio undoubtedly not only takes mostly complicated subjects and relies on that to create his work, he is also a great documentary filmmaker who, more than anything, actually exposes a subject from which sometimes one wants to look away, and he does so. Both in an informative and impartial manner.
The level of immersion, commitment and at the same time dismay are on another level here, in this viewing.
Religion as a topic of discussion is so old, and has been around countless times, since it does both good and evil.
You can see waves of fanaticism and questioning, it is not just being for or against even though sometimes these situations are evident in the same documentary, it is more than anything: the perception of reality.
Reality is something very powerful, there is nothing stronger than it here; The reality is that the Apostles had a lot of power, the reality is that religion gives you a different conception of the world, and all this, the entire documentary is only a starting point not for the injustices within La Luz del Mundo but for Let's understand that even though we are not all religious, we all have a conception of reality, what if it were altered to the point of not knowing if what you do is right or if what they do to you is right?
It is so clearly stated that for religious people the truth is that their Apostle is not at fault, just as it is also very clearly stated that the Jane Does suffered a lot.
In cinema there are always narratives and although there are millions of stories, they will always be subject to the narrative, just as the world and human perception are.
