该剧根据大导演罗曼波兰斯基的妻子被谋杀的真实故事改编。1969年8月的洛杉矶，在曼森的领导下，他的追随者在两天内屠杀了7个人，并在犯罪现场写下了恐怖信息。20世纪60年代末，美国开始发生重大变化。越南战败、经济灾难、人权运动兴起在这个价值崩溃、秩序混乱的社会，很多人寻求解脱之道，于是有一群人投身于崇尚“做爱不打架”的嬉皮文化，自称“花的孩子”，用毒品和性乱来麻痹自己。一群人相信查尔斯曼森是基督的化身，视他为精神领袖，加入他的大家庭共同生活，为了建立他的理想国家而实施他的杀人计划。本片从美国历史上最著名的杀手查尔斯曼森及其家庭成员的角度出发，讲述了他们的生活方式和实施一系列残忍谋杀的过程。I don't know how accurate this movie is on the Manson Family. So I would just see it as a movie. 　　 When I found Charlie and the family, I got nowhere else to go. Well, not actually, if parents and relatives could be 'somewhere'. No, anywhere I go, I just don't fit in. Charlie told me that I was valuable and I was the most beautiful creature. He couldn't be meaning it, or could he? Maybe I AM valuable just no one else ever noticed. They took over all my belongings as soon as I got there. At first I felt a little insecure without anything MINE. But do I really need those stuff, if everything belongs to everyone? Then the stealing and the killing. Technically, killing people is easy, really. The only thing you need is the belief that killing is not a crime, not a sin. That's easy too, because that's what Charlie says, and he must be right, he has to be right. He's our saviour, we're all brothers and sisters, and we love each other, we'd do anything for each other, for Charlie. 　　 After a while, I felt somehow uncomfortable. Am I not used to living with love? Am I tired of love or what? I think I know what Manson Family means. It means it's a family. Yeah, a family, like other millions billions of families, where all members claim they love each other only because they can't face the fact that they don't. But Charlie can't be wrong, can he?　　 Then we got nicked. Here's my father asking 'Why?!' with tears in his eyes, as if he could understand, as if he would listen at all. 'WHY' is always so important though no asker really wants the answer. At that moment, I suddenly felt it all worthwhile, even only for confusing and upsetting him. 　　 Of course I went back to my old family at last. A convenient choice. So that's what I did in all those years, running away from a family, joining another, and running back, as a rebel, a traitor and a lost child. I didn't say much to my parents. The good thing about parents is that you don't have to explain everything to them, you'd better not. 　　 Sometimes, when people get annoying, I sort of miss my life with Charlie, wish I was still in his family. Then I laugh at myself thinking one family is better than another. But it's such a fun to imagine how these people would feel if I stab their families to death, leaving them wondering why. Such fantasy is pathetic I know, but 'pathetic' is THE truth about real life, isn't it? 　　 useful links: http://www.charliemanson.com/ http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/notorious/manson/murder_1.html 　　Helter Skelter by The BeatlesWhen I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide Where I stop and turn and I go for a ride Till I get to the bottom and I see you again Yeah, yeah, yeah Do you don't you want me to love you I'm coming down fast but I'm miles above you Tell me tell me come on tell me the answer and you may be a lover but you ain't no dancer Go helter skelter helter skelter helter skelter Yeah, hu, hu I will you won't you want me to make you I'm coming down fast but don't let me break you Tell me tell me tell me the answer You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer Look out Helter skelter helter skelter helter skelter Yeah, hu, hu Look out cause here she comes When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide Where I stop and turn and I go for a ride Till I get to the bottom and I see you again Yeah, yeah, yeah Well will you won't you want me to make you I'm coming down fast but don't let me break you Tell me tell me tell me the answer You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer Look out Helter skelter helter skelter helter skelter Yeah, hu, Helter Skelter She's coming down fast Yes she is Yes she is coming down fast