notes for the film "Guru - Bhagwan, his secretary and his bodyguard
emotionally this movie. This film is polarized. This film speaks of aspirations, makes you sad and angry. He entertains and informs. He shows stunning images from the life of the famous gurus. This is the film misses the point. This film is a remarkable disappointment.
In the 80s and 90s practiced Osho, formerly known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, an almost magnetic attraction to those from which the therapeutic and spiritual had the sense to go the way of personal transformation. The Western press, however eyeing him and he initiated Sannyasin movement, especially in terms of the sex guru and sexual libertinism. The pretentious social experiment, which is also connected to Osho and his climax in the famous commune "Rajneespuram" was held in Oregon, appears as the central - tragically - subject of this film. Interview fragments with two protagonists from the "inner circle" Osho, namely, his former secretary Sheela Birnstiel and Osho's bodyguard, Hugh Milne, run through with their memories and observations of the whole film and are illustrated with many, some previously unreleased original recordings.
This film is a remarkable disappointment because "disappointment" is the common thread that it runs through: the disappointment of our two heroes from the inner circle that, at any have processed much in his own way, their experience with the guru more or less. My impression is that this Hugh Milne succeeded far better than Sheela Birnstiel. Hugh Milne affects me more differentiated in the processing phase of his life on the side of the Guru. It I have the feeling that Hugh Milne in spite of his excommunication and the subsequent suicide attempt, now has found more peace with his past than his opponent Sheela (which should be enough for his excommunication allegedly in charge). Sheela Birnstiel seemed to me rather unappealing. This is caused primarily by the fact that it can be seen at any point of the interview, even the hint of willingness to take personal responsibility for the mistakes of the past for which she was proven responsible. It is justified, winds, speak out, and so again and again that, that it has exported each time so only the Guru's instructions even if it was so that Osho has driven even the questionable-fascist developments in Oregon. Birnstiel wife reminds me of their argument fatal to the views of those blind follow orders, as found in dictatorships and armies around the world.
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