Revisionist history with great technical value

Rating: 5/10 (20 August 2019)

It's a Western where Hippies are the bad guys.
Technically very well made, very good cars, sets and costumes, a great reconstruction of the era, expect for the revisionist Manson storyline which seems like the wet dream of a trope-like 60s conservative man who hates evil dirty hippies. Is it a satire?
The historical subject matter around the murders and the family is only explored extremely superficially and underplayed. It seems like most of the interesting parts about the family were cut out in favor of boring Western film set dialogue.
The scenes with the Manson girls, hitchhiking and roaming around the city collecting food and also all scenes with Margot Robbie are tough brilliantly acted and the highlight of the film.
Lots of time-period film references, weird how Dragnet "the Blue Boy" episode wasn't featured.
Really cool to see Bruce Dern, one of the typical B-movie biker gang movie actors.
What ultimately ruins the film for me:
The scene discrediting a martial-arts hero is stupid and unhonourable !