Truly disturbing, would make a good double feature with 'An Inconvenient Truth' for a frightening vision of the future. My favorite scene happens right in the beginning when the camp leader asks her audience of children "who believes that god can do anything? raise your hands!" and the camera cuts to a child sitting on his parents lap, the parent immediately thrusts her child's hand straight up in the air, then grabs her other child's hand sitting next to her and raises it for him as well.
I think the thing that is so troubling about this movie, is how completely alien these people seem to me. With most characters in movies, or even with people you meet in the course of your everyday life, you can on one level or another sympathize, or empathize, or in some sense 'get' where they are coming from, imagine what it would be like to 'be that person', to experience life on their terms (I'm thinking to all the myriad of people/backgrounds/environments in the movie 'Babel' recently as a good example)... but the people portrayed in this documentary, I can't for a moment imagine what it must be like to be these people, to believe that brainwashing your own children is not only for their good, but for the good of the entire nation, and apparently they will only be happy when the entire country follows in their footsteps.
My wife asked the question "why would these people agree to be filmed for this documentary?", and in answer, I'm sure that they saw nothing negative about how they were portrayed, and more than likely saw it as a way of getting out 'their message', and in no way see themselves as others do, which is disturbing on a whole other level.
I'm reminded of a line from Woody Allen's 'Hannah and Her Sisters', where Max Von Sydow is commenting on television evangelists: "If Jesus came back today, and saw what was being done in his name, he would never stop throwing up."