The Lost Years is a meandering fringe theory documentary that focuses on Jesus. The initial focus of the film is on the alleged "lost years" of Jesus between the periods of his life that are well documented. This film postulates that he spent those years traveling India, learning how to do party tricks such as turn water into wine, duplicate bread, and bring back the dead. The theories as to how exactly this happened range from Jesus being taught by a mystic to Jesus having his potential being unlocked through meditation. You can't, or at least shouldn't, fill a 90 minute run time with just that though so the film then shifts focus to the end of his life, specifically on the two artifacts that are left from that time: spear of longinus and shroud of torin.
Brief, but surprisingly detailed, histories are given for each object before they start to talk about things like their spiritual (or perhaps occult) significance. The film dives back into esoteric theories as it ties all the classic historical figures to the spear before getting to every fringe theorists favorite subject: Nazi Occultism. Its pretty fun stuff to be honest, while modern hucksters such as Ancient Aliens try to convince you they are right this documentary throws it all out there as matter a fact as you can be.
While some of the subjects/ideas it hits on its seemingly, aimless stroll are a little dull this is overall a pretty good slice of pseudo-science cheese.
Brief, but surprisingly detailed, histories are given for each object before they start to talk about things like their spiritual (or perhaps occult) significance. The film dives back into esoteric theories as it ties all the classic historical figures to the spear before getting to every fringe theorists favorite subject: Nazi Occultism. Its pretty fun stuff to be honest, while modern hucksters such as Ancient Aliens try to convince you they are right this documentary throws it all out there as matter a fact as you can be.
While some of the subjects/ideas it hits on its seemingly, aimless stroll are a little dull this is overall a pretty good slice of pseudo-science cheese.
