If there is one reason why the United States is recognized is because of its history of murders and tragedies, where psychopaths take action in their hands and decide to cruelly massacre innocent people for simple problems of opinion or just to follow an idea they have been implemented. Historically, for example, Charles Manson is one of the most recognized psychopaths that has ever existed in the United States, a man who led dozens of people to commit crimes based on fictitious tales that were only used to manipulate them.

Today I want to share with you a film that shows us from within the workings of a cult created to commit the diabolical and cruel acts of a man who believed himself to be the new Jesus.

Charlie Says gives us a more detailed look at the coexistence within the cult created by Charles Manson, an apparently harmless cult that quickly became a place of murderers and disturbed people.

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Going deeper into story.

The plot of this film takes us through the lives of 3 young followers of Charles Manson who believed in the fairy tales that Charlie preached, a man with delusions of greatness who was dedicated to harming and manipulating the minds of many weak women and with emotional problems. The film does not focus on the crimes committed by members of the cult, but on their lives within it, throughout the film we see how daily life was in the cult, how they lived among them, how they got resources and especially how they constantly venerated Charlie to the point of being their pets.

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The interesting thing about the film is that we see the whole process of washing of mind and conscience that Charles Manson exercised in weak women with liberal thoughts that only wanted another kind of life, but instead ended up giving everything to a man who used them as puppets to please his lower desires, a man who was able to sell them as sexual objects to his friends in exchange for favors and benefits for him; and it is incredible to see how Charlie at times projected himself to be a calm and compassionate man but at the same time he was ruthless and vengeful, basically a psychopath whose mask changed depending on the situation.

The film achieves in a very direct way and through three imprisoned young women and members of the cult of Charlie personify the lies that this psychopath proclaimed, in them we see the innocence that a man was able to rape to meet their lowest goals, lies that were tattooed in the subconscious of 3 innocent young men whose lives were ruined forever.

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The Cult Members

There are not many characters that manage to stand out because the film focuses mainly on the testimonies of 3 young women imprisoned for the crimes they were led to commit, bloody crimes that torment them constantly. In each of the young women we can see the damage and the different degrees of brainwashing that Charlie achieved, each is more submissive than the other but nevertheless all firmly believe in the words of a man who constantly see as a god. The interpretations of the 3 young girls is brutal, each one perfectly manages to transmit a tremendous emotional intensity where we see different degrees of emotion, sadness, anguish and love.

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Charles Manson's character is also very well constructed even though they don't delve very much into it, we always see him present as that kind of god who sees everything and can do everything, a man who constantly manipulates everyone around him but never gets his hands dirty, an impulsive man who does things depending on how he feels that day. The actor who plays it does a very good job of conveying that diabolical countenance at all times, even when there is no drop of apparent evil.

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Final Thoughts

This is a film that I find difficult to understand the reason for its low ratings, a film that gives us a very good inside to the evil cult responsible for so many massacres and violent crimes against innocent people. The film allows us to explore the behavior and evolution of a psychopath who managed to create a big lie that placed him as the savior of a race.

The film has a slow pace but despite that does not bore us and on the contrary leaves us with a taste of wanting to see and know more of the crimes perpetrated by the cult of Charles Manson.

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