Gibney presents evidence that Hubbard misrepresented his war injuries, and can’t resist noting Hubbard’s post-war encounter with Aleister Crowley’s occultism – which allows him to include not-very-relevant clips from Kenneth Anger’s Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome. One question that hangs over the enterprise is: how much do you need to know about Hubbard and the early history of his project to understand how Scientology operates today? The film interviews many ex-Scientologists, some of them embittered by what they went through, and so necessarily focuses on recent operations and disputes.īut it skims the history too. Ron Hubbard’s death to the faithful, glad-handing Tom Cruise, getting standing ovations at Scientology galas and exulting in his victory over the US tax authorities. Wright and his editors and fact-checkers were granted one legally policed meeting with Scientology reps in 2010 Gibney has the huge advantage that he can use Scientology videos to show, for example, Miscavige breaking the news of founder L. Like the book, the film has to work around the problem that Scientology’s current leader David Miscavige refuses to give interviews.
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