Escaping Utopia | show | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

New Zealand's most extreme religious cult, Gloriavale, and the true stories of people attempting to break free, includin | dHNfcmZEYkpIR3FWUGM

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00:00My perception of the outside world was that it was a very dangerous, destitute, evil place.

00:12In Gloriaville, it's protected.

00:17We are the chosen ones.

00:19We are the people of God.

00:24We were told, this is what we're protecting you from.

00:27What you're taking out of this evil, wicked world.

00:32Cross this bridge and you've lost your soul.

00:35And that's the psychological prison.

00:39You don't join a cult.

00:43You get recruited.

00:46You have to see the New Zealand West Coast to believe it.

00:49Dense bush, steep, steep mountains.

00:53No one for bloody miles.

00:56This would be one of the worst ages for sin.

01:05The women are there to serve the men.

01:07Work, have babies.

01:09Looking back, knowing what I know, yes, we were slaves.

01:15If you control the wife, you control the husband.

01:17If you control both of them, then you've got the whole family.

01:20The physical abuse, the psychological, sexual, the emotional, the spiritual abuse.

01:26I don't want those sort of things happening to my kids.

01:29She's not safe here.

01:36This is the opportunity in history to get it right.

01:40I'm gonna pack and cheer. Let's go to foreign. Stay safe.

01:43Let's go. Let's go.

01:46You gotta go down fighting.

01:48You don't have a family anymore!

01:50These are people coming out like refugees.

01:53All this abuse, there's just so much of it makes me feel sad.

01:56Come here. Come here.

01:57Hide the camera now.

01:59If no one does anything, these people aren't ever gonna get free.

02:02Remember those kids and go and do the right thing.

02:11To actually escape physically just feels impossible,

02:16but to escape psychologically, it actually is impossible.