Wild Wild Country, the latest Netflix 'must'
GAYLES.TV.- A guru, his secretary, power, sex, violence, xenophobia, spirituality, Salmonella, Rolls Royce and Antelope, a small town of Oregon (USA) with just 40 inhabitants are the addictive ingredients of Wild Wild Country, the last boom of Netflix that your head will explode. Halfway between Thety Black Mirror, this disturbing documentary series rescues the recordings made in the eighties in Rajneeshpuram, a neo-hippie pseudo-religious commune created in the middle of the desert to house 10.000 followers of Baghwan Shree Rajneesh. This audiovisual material, mixed with the testimonies of the protagonists of the events that are narrated, builds a shocking story.
«When a controversial leader of a sect builds a utopian city in the Oregon desert, conflicts with locals will transcend state borders«; this is the synopsis offered Netlfix of his last great success. But Wild Wild Country it is much more than a clash between cultures. The twists and turns that the script gives keep the viewer trapped relentlessly. It is so disturbing that despite being a documentary it seems unreal and the viewer is stunned by such an extreme reality.
En Rajneeshpuram free love is practiced. In one of the sequences of the documentary a reporter asks a boy who has just left the commune what he would recommend to another who wants to be part of this: «That does not come. Unless he wants to be fagot. Because there are all kinds of queers. They kiss and embrace. And lesbians too«. But don't get distracted, sex is just an excuse for scandal. Wild Wild Country it's not about sex, it's about characters and questioning the limits. Mental and territorial.
Si Baghwan seduces by its capacity of mass attraction, without a doubt the discovery of this series of six episodes is Ma Anand Sheela, its implacable secretary that will manage the community, no matter who falls. His determination and the absence of barriers to achieve the proposed are fascinating. You have to see it. It is urgent.
Sources: Netflix
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