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Apostasy (2017)
Realistic
As many other reviews have said, this film portrays very realistically life in this destructive cult (if you question that description, you are either one of JWs or you have never studied the qualities of cults and compared them with this organization).
I only gave it a 7 because it is at best mistitled. I was expecting the issue of apostasy to be dealt with.
There was very little apostasy involved. An apostate is someone who renounces belief. For purposes of Jehovah's Witnesses, it usually refers to someone who no longer believes the Watchtower speaks for God. Usually due to investigation brought on by some significant life event or experience.
The person who was disfellowshipped was not disfellowshipped for apostasy (which is, in fact, a disfellowshipping "offence"). This happens relatively early so should not be considered a spoiler. And she really didn't act like an apostate. She mentioned two or three questions in passing but didn't really ever show that she had "woken up" as someone does who is called an apostate.
The film is basically all about shunning and the blood issue. These are important issues for sure, and so the film is very worthwhile overall (though depressing).
La trêve (2016)
Season 2 Is Literally A Joke
I watch these things to improve my French. Otherwise I doubt I would have finished this. The things that happen in it are just too ridiculous.
The biggest one:
Two people together commit two murders and bury the bodies near their house. Before escaping (never to be seen again or referred to in the story), instead of covering up the grave site they put make-shift crosses as grave markers on both of them!
At that point you have to wonder is supposed to be a comedy?
But either way it wasn't funny.
Plain Truth (2004)
Adequate
This film adequately portrays the kind of damage that can be done by religious cults where conformance and issues resulting from it trump all considerations for the feelings and even the lives of the people ensnared.
The courtroom scenes are laughably unrealistic (even more than normal for a TV movie).
The previous reviewer who indicates that Katie was drunk and/or unconscious when the baby was conceived was a bit confused. That was one of her original obvious lies. The baby was the product of a romantic relationship.