Wild Wild Country is a documentary a group of people moving to Oregon from India, bringing along their religious beliefs. Some might say it was a cult because of how this religion/ or religious movement functioned. The documentary covers how Osho and his secretary Sheela moved their religious group, “Rajneshees” to Oregon. They found a completely empty area. Empty as in just Land, nothing on it but grass. These people which was apart of the religious group, both males and females, built a place to call their own. People of wealth that was apart of the group donated money also to help build the town. They called their town Rajneeshpuram. They came in peace, didn’t bother anyone, didn’t cause harm to anyone at all. The town that was close by started not liking the people of Rajneeshpuram, they started calling their religious group a cult.
After a video was exposed of people being naked during some type of religious event. People started to believe that it was really a cult, and to add to that, they think that this one man should not have this much power over a group of people. The people of the other village started attacking them, physically. They even tried to run them out of the place they built. Take in consideration, the people of the other village were a small about. Not even 200 hundred people living there. It all came down to a vote to decide who stays. The. Rajneeshees who easily won because their religious group out numbered the amount of people that lived in the other village. The results of this was that the Rajneeshees ended up running them out of their own village by buying them out, house by house. When the owner said “No”, they kept raising the price they were willing to pay, and eventually they bought out their village.
As the group got bigger, Osho added new officials from LA to work with Sheela. Well not “with”, but they had other responsibilities. Sheela started realizing that these new people had a bad influence on him. Sheela had his room wired where they would meet and have discussions. She knew what was going and and what they were convincing Osho/ The Bhagwan to do. The got him gifts all the time, which the Bhagwan likes. It seems like the Bhagwan lost tracked of what was important and Sheela realized that. Sheela is part of the reason the group was what it was, she was the one that called the shots, who defender the people, and then here comes these new people ruining it.
This documentary was made to show people what really went down, and how it affected people like Sheela who went to jail, but released. The documentary in general has a lot of great shots, especially B Roll of the actually people that was involved during that time itself. Also great interviews of people who was present and directly affected by what happened.