User Reviews

This is a documentary which is intended, I think, to inspire reflection on our own attitudes towards ourselves and other people. On some level it follows the ideas within the book _The Psychopath Test_, although it runs towards different conclusions; the book showing just how hard psychological assessment really is, whereas the movie is asking questions about the kind of society we are building.

Asking those kinds of questions is certainly going to be polarizing! While the producers clearly have an agenda, they have clearly not offered the last word (even in their own opinion, I would guess) on the subject. But asking questions is not the same as advocating change. People can develop their own answers (including "this is a load of tosh") to what the producers have to say.

It was well worth my time, and I recommend it for any thoughtful person who is concerned with how to live in the modern world.

The lone-star reviewer who takes this excellent and all-too-necessary documentary as an insult to those suffering from mental illness shows no appreciation for the abject evil embodied by psychopaths and narcissists. Evil explained yet evil remains. Untreatable monstrosities should not be equated with the downtrodden virtuous, tormented artists or the hopeless and homeless. The latter typify the victims, not the monstrosities. Contrary to what this reviewer suggests, this film does NOT conflate the two. For every untreatable monstrosity loose in society (about 85% of them the last time I collected the data) there is a long trail of hapless and innocent victims, most of them utterly destroyed before they understood what was being perpetrated upon them, let alone the true nature of the perpetrator. Understand one thing: psychopaths and narcissists have no feelings to hurt and must be sought out, rounded up and forcefully removed from proper society if it is to function normally and with social justice.

This film speaks truth to power, especially at a time when an untreatable monstrosity sits in the "dump" that most people know as the Oval Office, doing day in and day out what he was programmed at birth to do: promote himself over all others and eliminate all threats to his personal preeminence and power.

I thought that if I just don't join Scientology I could avoid the dangerous and irresponsible junk science that this propaganda film spews out on an astonishing level. This film actual insinuates that anti-depressants are the cause of pathological disorders, flashing old, old visions of genocide's and wars that occurred a long time before anti- depressants were even invented. It also insinuates that psychopaths and sociopaths are the only people that take them, showing interviews with happy people who don't take them, reinforcing a stereotype that people with anxiety disorders and other problems are evil! Absolutely incredible! It claims that empathy is lacking in the world; true, but at the same time makes fun of those people who have depression and anxiety. This movie is the biggest piece of insensitive, elitist and ignorant trash I have ever had the displeasure of witnessing! I am actually very upset. Propaganda films which encourage sick people to abandon treatments and also stigmatize legitimate illnesses should, in my opinion, be banned worldwide. I'm for free speech, but this is plain malicious, science manipulation and corruption. Apart from this it also contradicts it's own arguments so many times it's quite truly amazing! If it wasn't so dangerous I would say watch it just for a laugh. These film-makers and the main narrator (actor) should be ashamed of themselves! Have some empathy for people who are not so lucky as yourselves, and don't talk about things you clearly have no experience in. SHAME ON YOU!