Guerrilla: The taking of patty Hearst

Yesterday I somehow managed to stay up late and incidentaly caught PBS' late night showing of the the film/documentary about the 1970's kidnapping of Randolf Hearst's daughter Patty Hearst and her subsequent involvement in the SLA.
It was one of the best documentaries I'd seen on PBS in a long time and although somewhat naive in their thoughts... it was a bit of the romanticized version of Robin Hood, with the SLA demanding that R. Hearst use some of his own money to feed the poor of San Francisco by buying out Grocery stores.

There were so many twists that no written script could have been that well written. From the first reports of Hearst's kidnapping to her pleas for help to her dad asking him to "do what the kidnappers want", to her later recorded messages blasting her father as a member of the evil corporate empire that ruled the world and her renouncing of the name Patty Hearst to become 'Tania of the SLA'.

This is such a great documentary and watching it makes you develop your own opinion of people in general... highly recommended world.

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