aafleming-19569
Joined Mar 2016
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Nothing new here. If you are unfamiliar with cults there might be some educational value in this program, but most of us have read about and heard of numerous cults. The only reason we ever heard about this one was the business with the mummified corpse and the Christmas lights. If you don't know what I am talking about that might be a reason to watch this because it is funny in a sick way. The footage of the police going into the house and finding the lit-up mummy is priceless, but the rest of program devotes an excessive amount of time to cult members explaining that it is the rest of the world that is crazy. Most cult leaders have some skills, such as in persuasion or manipulation, but this woman was just a jerk, a nasty and abusive alcoholic without an ounce of charisma, so the tried and true explanations that are offered as to why people join these absurd cults are even less convincing here.
Another early reviewer here said most of what I was going to say about how this film is disorganized and choppy, with poor editing and no central point or theme. But mainly I found it very, very, very boring although I was a great fan of hers. Someone born over 50 years ago, in 1970, would be 52 to 53 years old today. Yet there is no context provided for Donna Summer's career, almost nothing about the era, very little about disco music. The film just assumes that the viewer is very familiar with all this and very familiar with Donna Summer. And they could not show a single performance of one entire song? Or play one entire record all the way through? There's a lot of "home video" type film which is just a bunch of people messing around and does nothing to illustrate anything about Donna Summer. Her fall from popularity was almost as dramatic as her rise, yet as another reviewer said you'd think from this film that she went right from a major career to lung cancer and dying. What happened in between? A sadly missed opportunity; a fascinating performer turned into a boring subject and a documentary which provides little relevance for anyone not over 50.