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He was interested in the American mini-series Under the Banner of Heaven, 2022, which was based on the popular science book of the same name by John Krakauer. Of course, everyone has heard about the so-called Mormon Church, which has existed in America for a long time, I also read something and saw some films, but there it was shown quite superficially and did not inspire much horror, well, just another sect. As I read, the author of the book decided to study this phenomenon in more detail and everything related to it, starting with the history of the emergence, changes taking place in this church itself, and also told the real story of the brutal murder by members of the fundamentalist branch of this church by the Lafferty brothers of the wife and young daughter of one of the brothers, there and the brother began to break away from them, and his wife generally adhered to too modern views, although she was the daughter of a bishop, however, more modern, dared the university to finish and even work on television, which they generally strongly condemned. The authors of the series decided to film this story, showing us some historical details and events that pop up in the stories of the participants of the events, the investigating police officer Jeb Pyrie (Andrew Garfield), also a Mormon believer, then his unbelieving Indian partner Bill Tab (Gil Birmingham) from the local tribe, whom the Mormons generally did not consider people. In this area where they live, there are many Mormons, so there are not so few of them among the police, but it must be admitted that Jeb himself this investigation was very difficult and greatly shaken, in all likelihood, his faith, although he belonged to the already more modern branch of it, which does not profess polygamy, unlike fundamentalists. They often had to choose between the law and the demands of the Church Fathers, who wanted to hush it up. To observe the life and reasoning of these people (and the action took place in the 80s), all the brains of which were completely washed by this their teaching, in truth, a bit creepy, after all, the Middle Ages did not stand in the courtyard even then. Therefore, any doubters were perceived by them extremely hostile, in addition, many representatives were obsessed with the desire to be declared elected in order to realize their power ambitions, and all their delusional thoughts were presented as revelations of God and completely shamelessly manipulated others. It makes no sense to talk about this, if someone is interested in the topic, it is better to look at it, but I will not recommend it to everyone.