Greg-Clift

Having lived through this from 2 hours south, Bend, OR, we all remember the people dressed in red. I was a teen that shared headlines with Rajneeshees. You know how Al Bundy talks about back-in-the-day-football stories? Well I could show you newspaper pages with stories about my team and What's-His-Name. Osho? I never heard that moniker before watching this. I guess that's the point. I didn't know a tenth of this story. When you're 17 and the center of the universe, you don't quite care that the center of the universe moved to Antelope. All I can say is, watch this movie for the history. I could not avoid it. Here's another irony: I'm a Young Life guy. I can see how the story ends up for the Big Muddy/Washington Family Ranch. If you want to see an amazing transformation, go visit the ranch today. The movie didn't show the zip-line or how there are 5 complete regulation size basketball courts inside the former meeting-orgy complex. In the same building is the largest indoor skateboard park on the West Coast. It's a truly massive structure. So on that note I give the documentary a lower grade for not enough resolution on the side of the ranch itself. What the guru set out to do was actually completed by Christians on the same property.

It appears that some of the plays are shot or re-shot just for the camera angles to be dramatic. It may be that some of the plays are real but if you watch the very first episode, there must be cameras on tracks behind the action and they when we see the same play from a different angle, there should be cameras visible from the opposite angle. The over-all message of the series is good; preparing young men for the real world. Don't let the staging of shots/set-up deter you from watching.