Review – Jonestown: Paradise Lost

Reenactments combine with survivor interviews to play out the last five days in the existence of the People’s Temple. If you know nothing about what happened, you may find this fascinating. But as a viewer who already knows the morbid details of the mass murder and suicide, I’m far more interested in how the situation got to this point. In retrospect it’s so easy to see Jim Jones as a con artist and a psychopath. When interviewing the victims who managed to elude his homicidal fury, it would be far more fascinating to learn about how they fell under his influence to begin with rather than how they managed to scramble away when it all fell apart. Mildly amusing