AUM: The Cult at the End of the World (2023)

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AUM: The Cult at the End of the World

I 1984 stiftede den excentriske guru Shoko Asahara en yogaskole i Japans hovedstad. 10 år senere er skolen forvandlet til dommedagskulten Aum Shinrikyo, der fremstiller nervegas og har sine egne, hemmelige våbenfabrikker. Den karismatiske, halvblinde Asahara udråbte sig selv som Buddhas efterfølger, og med ham som åndelig vejleder for sine tusindvis af tilhængere planlagde kulten i 1995 et terrorangreb på Tokyos metro, der efterlod 14 døde og 6000 sårede. Hvordan kom det så vidt? Instruktørparret Chiaki Yanagimoto og Ben Braun optrevler den utrolige historie helt ned i detaljen, og det er en rystende universel om radikalisering og ekstremisme i lukkede miljøer - bare med den forskel, at lederen også er en populær gæst i tv-shows og stiller op som lokalpolitiker! Det sidste fejler katastrofalt, og Asaharas sårede forfængelighed var ironisk nok afgørende for sektens apokalyptiske drejning. Med righoldige klip fra gruppens psykedeliske propaganda-videoer og med interviews med Asahara selv.

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AUM: The Cult at the End of the World

In 1984, eccentric guru Shoko Asahara founded a yoga school in Japan’s capital. Ten years later, the school has morphed into the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult which manufactures nerve gas and has its own secret weapons factories. The charismatic, half-blind Asahara proclaimed himself Buddha’s successor, and with him as a spiritual guide to his thousands of followers, the cult planned a 1995 terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway that left 14 dead and 6,000 injured. How did it come to this? Director duo Chiaki Yanagimoto and Ben Braun unravel the incredible story in great detail, and it’s a chillingly universal about radicalisation and extremism in closed environments – only with the difference that the leader is also a popular guest on TV shows and runs for local office! The latter fails disastrously, and Asahara’s wounded vanity was ironically crucial to the cult’s apocalyptic turn. Rich with clips from the group’s psychedelic propaganda videos and old interviews with Asahara himself.

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