354: Sons of Perdition - The Lost Boys of the FLDS Church Pt. 2

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 7 June 2012

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Sons of Perdition (the movie, produced by Tyler Measom and Jennilyn Merten) follows three boys after they leave their FLDS families and community in Colorado City, Utah. With limited educations and rarely a stable address, the obstacles are enormous. All the boys have big dreams - starting with the hope of attending high school - but what they want most is contact with their families. For one teen in the film, this means numerous attempts to help his fourteen-year-old sister escape before an arranged marriage. With unprecedented access, Sons of Perdition takes audiences on a three-year-journey into the lives of these remarkable teens, providing the inside analysis to make this intimate portrait a big story - a timely, critical look at faith, family and religious exile in mainstream America.

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0:30.4	So did you forge an emotional connection with these boys? Absolutely. Three questions. How do you
0:36.1	approach some lost boy and say, let us follow you around for two years with a camera and then
0:42.0	two, did you have to like find them a place to live and fund their existence so that they would
0:47.2	cooperate with you and then the third is what type of emotional or even familial bonds did you
0:52.0	develop? When we elected to make this film, there were a number of other documentary makers who
0:57.1	were trying as well to make this documentary a large number and we worked our way in through
1:01.9	a social worker who was helping them who was who turned out to be not such a good man and was
1:06.0	kind of after his own gain sorts. But he eventually after about five, six months of us hammering
1:12.2	him and convincing him, he introduced us to a few of the kids. Now they are initially hesitant of
1:17.2	anyone from the outside and they are also much more hesitant of those in the media because Warren
1:23.6	Jeffs don't talk to the media, the media is evil, the media is evil. And one of the boys Sam had
1:27.8	actually talked to CNN and CNN had kind of spun his story in a bit to make him appear as if he
1:33.2	was talking about his father when he was talking about Warren Jeffs and they were very much against
1:37.6	any kind of discussion with filmmakers or the media. Now Jenny and I the first time we met them
1:42.9	because of our past Mormon heritage, we could relate with them and I remember when we first met
1:48.0	with them where they were partying and we were having a good time and we did push ups contests and
1:52.1	we were and they go oh you can't believe it. Listen to these hymns we had to listen to. I remember
1:56.8	a distinct moment where Suzanne who's in the film put in a CD and played some of the hymns and
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