Review of Phoenix Rising

10/10
We Were Right To Be Afraid of Marilyn Manson
20 March 2022
I can remember in the late 80s when Marilyn Manson first came out, so many parents, political groups and activists were up in arms over his disturbing approach to entertainment. I'm not going to comment on his music, I don't like it, but that doesn't matter. He's an artist and he's entitled to make the music he wants.

What I'm going to comment on his that he was a monster, a predator and a danger. Trent Reznor, the frontman for Nine Inch Nails, knew Marilyn Manson was a danger and still produced him and helped him on his way to becoming one of the most successful predators in the entertainment industry.

Mason's entourage knew Marilyn as a volatile, dangerous and sociopathic predator; however, like they say in this psychologically disturbing yet magically triumphant documentary, Phoenix Rising, there were plenty of times when people around Manson could have stopped him and no one did anything because there was so much money to be made.

The sad fact is that in the entertainment industry atrocities happen everyday and as long as there's money to be made, usually nobody does anything to stop it. Marilyn Manson hasn't even been arrested and look at everything he got away with. Look at how long it took the authorities to punish R. Kelly.

Manson will probably never get punished. But Evan Rachel Wood has told us her story and we've heard about the other victims of Marilyn Manson and now we look to people like Trent Reznor and ask why did you produce such a monster? Why Trent did you ever have to give us Marilyn Manson? Why did you let him hurt so many people without stopping him? Trent Reznor was one of the closest people to Manson. The blame isn't just with Marilyn, it's with everybody like Trent, The Producers, the managers the money people that set Manson upon this world to rape and pillage.
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