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List Price: $14.99 Our Price: $13.99 You Save: $1 Features • Color • DVD-Video • Full Screen • NTSC In Theaters : 1980 DVD Release : 28 August, 2007 |
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| The Film: What we have here is a star-studded, made-for-tv docudrama centered around the life & death of Jim Jones and his People's Temple. Powers Boothe, while he doesn't necessarily look or sound like the real deal, captures the darkness of Jim Jones' persona. The film begins in Jonestown with a mock "loyalty test" after which Jones, tormented, takes a trip down memory lane. We see his childhood, during which he frequented church services, conducted pet funeral services with childhood friends, witnessed the abusive nature of his parents' relationship(his murder and torture of small animals was left untouched). We witness his becoming a pastor, the first pastor to conduct integrated services in Indianapolis,IN,his marriage, and ultimately, after the success of the People's Temple as a congregation and humanitarian effort, we see his moral and mental decline:drug usage, bisexual affairs, pro-claiming himself divine, physical/verbal abuse of members, all culminating in Jonestown,Guyana with the murder/suicide of nearly 1,000 People's Temple members, Congressman Leo J. Ryan and others. As with many other docudramas, there are a few changes of identity & fact to protect the innocent(and to captivate the audience via dramitization. As a film, Guyana Tragedy is a masterpiece...as gripping as it is chilling. As a film I give it 5 stars.
DVD Quality: For the sake of those that are hyperventilating because I haven't shot the latest release of Guyana Tragedy to hell for the grainy pictures, the occasional skipping, the sometimes fuzzy sound, and the dreaded mid-sentence scene changes...please refer to the DVD-R version that was released a few months before this one by Reel Entertainment and if you happen to peep the DVD-R version of this same release(2 discs, no menus, darker and grainier pictures/sound, virtually a bootleg transfer from the VHS) I think you'll give the DVD release(VCI Entertainment) a 2nd chance with it's single disc,menu, bonus features, trailers,etc. Compared to the Reel Entertainment release of the same film, this one's good as gold. Not perfect, but the best version of the release to date. Once again, peace & prayers to the families impacted by the Jonestown Massacre. |
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