Interesteg What makes it different from others?

StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

swedeandsour This is like a primer for people that know nothing about Scientology, its origins, practices or high profile cases. The more you know about it, the less interesting it gets because there's very little original discovery in the documentary.The beginning was very, very interesting. The first 48 minutes had me glued to the screen. It is a biography of LRH. The rest of it, if you're old enough or read enough, is all from the news.

rabbitmoon I haven't seen a documentary that crosses so many levels as this one - brainwashing, capitalism, religion, IRS wranglings, celebrity, psychopathy, abuse, deception and conspiracy - its all here in abundance. You can barely process the magnitude and implications of a moment when its taking into another equally as disturbing but about another angle entirely. I'm so glad that HBO and all involved had the balls and legal representation to produce this - and that Miscavige et al couldn't do a thing about it. The disturbing underlying implication is just how exploitable the human mind is. Once someone enters into a narrow tunnel of awareness, the installed belief systems can be engineered precisely to protect themselves - shutting out all interference and counter- evidence. That people like John Travolta ignore entirely the negative/thought-supressive aspects of Scientology in favor of their petty positives shows just how obtuse they are. The intrinsic need for power and status (Hubbard, Cruise, Miscavige) that some people have borders on psychotic in how it manifests.

kosmasp Yes my summary is meant to mean more than one thing. Not sure if the Church of Scientology (self proclaimed I may add) can say the same thing about their beliefs and programs. But the documentary does point out many things that are wrong with them. And if you do a documentary, this one is a good example how to do it right.Of course a lot of things came together, former high ranked Scientology officials, who are not with the "Church" anymore. There are also people from Hollywood (Paul Haggis is the biggest name to come out of the whole thing and he's talking about his experience) in this. So while Travolta and Cruise did not comment or rather refused to be interviewed, you do see official clips, that do get commentary or stand for themselves especially in light what other things are being shown and discussed. Very informative and really well researched and amazingly put together structure-wise.Highly recommended and very interesting, even if you didn't care that much about them before watching this

Irishchatter This appeared on the Sky Arts channel which is kinda odd for this documentary to air but anyhow, it was very informative even though it was long. It really got into the detail of this Hubbard guy who was a Sci-Fi writer and pretty much he set up the Scientology religion in order to avoid to pay his taxes. He was really clever but yet a crook who just managed to find a way to brainwash people including the tax people and worship him as the big guy of the pack.This is my first time seeing Tom Cruise and John Travolta in the Scientology events that take place in some big Los Angeles gala. Actually, its the first time I've ever seen them both talk among the other followers about their religion. Now this made me wonder, where were the other celebrity Scientology followers such as Kirstie Alley, Kelly Preston, Nancy Cartwright and among many others? Why did Tom Cruise and John Travolta have to deny to give an interview for this documentary? What are they hiding here with regards to Scientology?Really good documentary about how Scientology works and its members, 8/10 it deserves!