Let me start out by saying that this looks like a medium to create sympathy for the three women still in jail as they are repeatedly refused parole for their life sentences. Manipulated or not, these "girls" brutally murdered innocents in multiple locations and did it willingly. Yes, they were weak, like most of the hippie/boomer generation, were spoiled and wanted all the privileges without any of the responsibilities required of them by society.

This film pushes the touchie-feelie Liberalism that got us into the problems we now have in society. Weak-willed or not, these "harmless girls" viciously slaughtered multiple people and then were portrayed as brainwashed innocents who sweet-talked their guards, played nice-nice with any "outsider" yet had complete control over their actions. We are meant to believe that they had no choice to do what they did and were completely innocent of their malicious crimes. They "turned on, tuned in, dropped out" then looked for sympathy for their actions. This attempt to cancel out actual history for an emotional version of it made my stomach churn. Yes, I realize this film was directed at those who weren't even alive when the Manson Family committed their bloody rampage and most have very little to no actual knowledge of the violence they created in 1969. Nevertheless, this just seems like a way to soften the hearts of the parole board by creating sympathy with the general populace who never saw the brutal crime scene photos.