Hey pollocks, I'm watching this movie and was wondering if you guys have seen it and know what happens.
It's about this ancient religious cult that thinks they've been unfairly oppressed for over a thousand years, so they infiltrate the government and business communities and pit them against each other to create fake conflicts. Then they use those conflicts as a justification for further power grabs by them and their allies which escalate the conflicts. They try to assassinate anyone who stands in the way of their plan to trick everyone into joining the fake conflict and giving them more power.
There's also this long nosed slave owning desert merchant whose prize slave gets trolled into killing a bunch of sand people and murdering the younglings of his people. The little religious cult's plan gets revealed to him, but when the cultists get confronted they cry out in pain even as they strike out at innocents and people seeking deserved justice. They spin lies and their slave ends up destroying his own people in his mad quest to share the parasitic cult's power.
I'm just wondering, do the good guys ever start fighting the real enemy instead of joining in the fake conflict? Asking for a Q friend. Pic unrelated.
