![]() Or, as survivor Tim Carter, puts it in one riveting scene: 'It was fucking murder. The first is that the Jonestown deaths weren't suicides. Only two things are really clear at the close of this harrowing, enthrallingly told story: There are no scenes of people lining up to drink poison in the docudrama penned by the creators of the Laramie Project, no bodies sprawled across the stage and absolutely no tidy psychological summation explaining precisely how and why 918 people came to die in Jonestown. And that's to the credit of this near-mesmerizing docu-drama about the individuals who died-and in a very few cases survived-that day in November, 1978, when Jim Jones turned a remote outpost in a Guyana rainforest turned into a killing field. ![]() ![]() If it's answers or carnage you're after, 'The People's Temple' will fail you on both counts. ![]()
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