“But if we believe Wood—and more than a dozen other women who have accused Manson of abuse—then a strange twist is that the aftermath of Columbine seems to have enabled Manson to become what Wood’s brother describes in the documentary as ‘a wolf in wolf’s clothing.’ The hysterical, invented accusations leveled at Manson then—that he molested children onstage, killed animals, had his security guards drug underage fans with ‘liquid ecstasy’—minimized other things that might have been happening in plain sight. But they also allowed Manson to detach his artistic persona from himself, and allowed others to infer that anything offensive he did was just performance art: winking commentary on America’s hypocritical and immoral core”.