Recently shown on Netflix, the American short series "Sins of Our Mother" sheds light on a crime that took place in Idaho that shook the United States of America in 2019, after a mother killed her children based on her interpretation of religious teachings.
The series basically attempts to ask a question: How can crimes be committed in the name of religious monasticism?
And how many very strange crimes were committed under the pretext of getting closer to God?
The series "Our Mother's Sins" revolves in only 3 episodes, made in the form of an investigative investigation behind the crime that began with the disappearance of the eccentric children of Lori Vallow.
The action begins with a real scene filmed by the police in which one of her ex-husbands accuses her of robbing his home and kidnapping their children, then we follow the story of the children's disappearance through an investigative journalist.
The American media dealt with the story of Lori Vallow, "The Lady of the Resurrection" - as the audience called her - based on the information provided by official sources, while the series was more spacious in dealing with the story by mixing truth and fiction, using the testimonies of the eldest son from her first husband, her mother, and some from her friends.
What happened to the heroine of "Our Mother's Sins"?
The scenes of "Our Mother's Sins" observe the development of the religious obsession of Lori Vallow, who follows the Mormon Christian sect, starting from her severe loneliness that made her say that she meets God, before claiming that Christ met her and ordered her to carry out specific tasks.
Religious obsession reaches its climax with her association with a fifth and final husband, as she declares her belief that some people die their souls, but their bodies remain, which do not represent any importance or sense of the world, considering that it is her duty to awaken everyone by getting rid of the owners of these inanimate bodies "zombies" and killing them even Life and feeling return to them.
Contrary to the original novel, the series indicates that Fallot's religious mania increased with her frequent visits to the "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" without a clear confirmation of the church's relationship to the crimes committed by this American.
What motivates the church to order it to kill some zombie people who have lost their lives?
And if that was true, why didn't more church members commit similar crimes?
The true novel presents Valo as obsessed with fame and believes that she is an exception and does not resemble her Mormon peers, and this exception may appear in the imagination of her interlocutor of Christ personally, she says.
Serious transformation after the fifth marriage
After Fallow's association with her fifth husband, Chad DePaul, her life undergoes a radical transformation, given that her last husband is a writer obsessed with the "last days" and the approaching resurrection, which, according to investigations, developed in her mind the idea of near annihilation, getting rid of all unimportant things and making beloved offerings that Starting from her children to death or bring back to life according to her strange belief.
The second coming of Christ stirs the couple, leading them to make a crazy decision to get rid of exactly 144,000 people near them, starting with relatives, then the city, and then bring them back to real life through death or re-live.
Everything begins to unravel from the defining moment in the series "Our Mother's Sins", which is embodied in the disappearance of Fallow's two young children and her eldest son searches for her, to get rid of them and bury them in the garden of the house, before the police find the remains buried years ago.
The story ends with the unfinished trial of Fallow, which has not decisively concluded that she and her husband are the perpetrators.
Mormons deny any responsibility or connection to the crimes committed by Fallot and her husband, DePaul, and consider what happened to be isolated cases that can be repeated among any human group.
The series "Our Mother's Sins" between documentation and drama
The series “The Sins of Our Mother” moves between relying on real interviews and imagining an entire scenario based on those “tales”, which makes it - despite being considered a documentary series - more like an epic drama in its heart is a story like a fantasy, about a woman trying to get rid of some people just because they ". Zombies don't have lives.
Perhaps the present moment, with its apparent human cruelty, conveys some of this obsession that is highlighted by a pathological condition, but it does not negate the general loneliness and the existential and human double anxiety experienced by contemporary man.
The viewer may feel some prejudice against the Mormon sect in the series produced by Netflix, which has been observed in a number of artworks recently, which shed light on some of the crimes committed by the followers of this sect as they represent all Mormons.