Cult deprogramming expert Rick Alan Ross has helped people escape cults since 1982. Watch as he reviews cult scenes from films and television including ‘The Vow,’ ‘Midsommar,’ ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,’ ‘Charlie Says,’ ‘Waco,’ ‘The Master,’ ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ ‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’ and ‘Holy Smoke.’
00:00 Intro
00:37 The Vow
02:30 Midsommar
04:24 Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
05:54 Charlie Says
07:54 Waco
09:38 The Master
12:03 The Handmaid’s Tale
13:48 Martha Marcy May Marlene
15:14 Holy Smoke
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I’d join a cult just to have the chance to have this guy deprogram me. Most gentle and soothing person I’ve seen on this site lol
The description early in the video of the group experience retreat matched so directly onto my church-led summer camp experiences (super common especially across the south) that I kinda had to just laugh bitterly and say "yep."
I'm sorry but can I say I admire those cult leaders? How do you manage to get other people to not trust their own eyes and ears, to put aside their reason and wholeheartedly support you even against their own health and life?
How do you even manipulate other people like that? And so young. People start cults in their 20s.
2:26 That point where he says "what is your ultimate pain", I feel like there's an industry out there that tries to convince people that they aren't happy, that they have trauma, etc., self-help, self actualization industry, prosperity gospel. So people are primed to believe they are unhappy and therefore to listen to books, gurus, self-help "leaders" cult leaders who promise to help them.
Self help and cult are one the same spectrum.
Everyone who drives a jeep is in a cult
I was in the military for 4 years. Everything you describe about cult dynamics and indoctrination is employed by the US military lol.
So this what happened in waco ? The followers died for david koresh ? Not a single mention about the FBI's role in the massacre ?
I do not remember most of the movie Midsommar except for that scene. In my mind it was them feeling her pain, as a woman. Which I thought was a beautiful shared experience. But I see how that’s different in the context of cults.
This guy is amazing 👏👏
I had a completely different take on the Midsommar scene, I thought for the first time she had people who were trying to understand her pain, as opposed to writing it off, as her boyfriend had
Can church be a cult? Lol
Whats weird… is the military is basically a cult then. They have most of these same traits.
he didn't mention 80% of all cult members are women, women are more agreeable than men and will put up with more BS
This is so much deeper than just regular cults and really plays into normal society
Cults are self-help groups who add new revelation to the Bible.
The cult is your cult
It always drove me crazy how many people tried to put a feminist spin on Dani joining the cult in Midsommar. "Oh, they care about her! They actually support her!" No they don't. They're not listening to her, they're not empathizing with her- they're manipulating her, boiling her nice and slow like a frog so that she doesn't even know she's in deep until it's too late. The goal is not for Dani to heal and go on with her life, whatever form that may take- it's for her to join them.
Kate Winslet having an epiphany is fine what would be bad if she attributes her opening up experiences to the guru. She wasn’t being converted she was having a significant experience. Her being attached to that setting as the cause of her satori experience would be joining the cult. The funny thing about holy smoke is the deprogrammer falls in love with her or is ultimately controlled by the supposed cult devotee
Should've had him watch "Red State"
I’m revising my Midsomar review. It now has -4 stars. Huge step up!
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