![]() ![]() Not all such groups numbered in the thousands, either. In high school I read about the exploits of Ted Patrick, going up against the likes of the Children of God (which he was almost indoctrinated into himself) and a whole raft of other True Believers whose motives and methodology were questionable at best. The way cult mindsets work has spooked me for quite some time, long before Japan’s own head-on confrontation with it in the form of Aum. Then it reveals its real subject by degrees-how a cult mind-set works to seduce outsiders and break their resistance-and it goes from Ozu coziness to full-blown Takashi Miike madness. At first, Asa Nonami’s Now You’re One of Us ambles along like one of Yasujiro Ozu’s movies about Japanese home life, a drama of manners about marriage and extended families. ![]()
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