Wormwood
9/10
I
decided to check out this short series on Netflix called Wormwood and
I can't even tell you why exactly but I am so glad that I did. This
is a mixture of documentary, movie, and holy shit the government is
terrifying. This is the story of a guy named Eric Olson who is trying
to find out if his father Frank Olson who was a CIA employee who was
part of an experiment called MK Ultra which consisted of drugging
agents with LSD killed himself by jumping from a window or if he was
killed. Peter Sarsgaard plays Frank in flashback scenes. This
features interviews with people involved, investigators, and lawyers
as they try to figure out what the fuck really happened.
This
was done wonderfully and I have been saying a lot the last year how
great documentaries have been made. They combine current footage with
past interviews, past footage, film, and video editing to create this
six episode series that is compelling as all hell. Every episode
covers a different aspect of the cover ups that were happening and
the ones that may still be happening with this case.
When I thought I
had something figured out I was wrong and just watching Eric go
through all this for decades is intense. It was good to hear what
people had to say about the way he has been following this all these
years and what it has done to him. I liked that they added that and
didn't paint this as one man against the government. Check this out.
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