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The film offers a doubled-barreled perspective not found in television news reports, one that relativizes the opposites of ‘them’ (the young Aum converts) and ‘us’ (the police, the media, myself, yourself) as two sides of the same coin. As a result, the film locates its objective not in an expose of the cult’s dark side, but rather in documenting the spiritual excesses and deficiencies on our side-yours and mine-that are at its source.