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What a clusterf*ck.
Seeing things unfold as they did was hilarious. I didn't hear about this festival until the fallout really. Even then it was still a little muddy to me as to what was going on. Fyre is the Netflix film that documents the efforts to put together a concert event on an island. The best thing this documentary has going for it is the behind the scenes footage, so we get firsthand accounts and we get to see what actually happened unfold in a glorious dumpster fire.
The interviews of those who worked there give tremendous insight into the ego of the people that were putting this thing on. If you throw enough money at your problems, they will eventually go away right? That had to have been the thought process of the people here. Yet it creates more problems down the road. Luxury tents turn out to be hurricane survivor tents; gourmet food turns out to be a slice of cheese on some bread. The insane levels of what happened here are hilarious to the viewer, but most likely traumatizing for those who attended. Although, I don’t know how much sympathy I can give people who spend thousands of dollars to go see a concert. There is a sense of privilege to those people that I simply cannot connect with.
It seems that it was a slow build from a dream to literally deceit. There were so many times when the whole thing should have been called off, but it wasn’t. The hole that was dug kept getting deeper. I literally laughed out loud and had my jaw open with awe at the part where the guy explains the depths he was willing to go to get the bottled water delivered to the event. Talk about taking one for the team. A guy tells the event organizers that you cannot build enough lodgings on this island, it is literally impossible. They fire him and do it themselves. That’s the level of ineptitude these people had.
Give the film a watch. Enjoy the carnage of destruction.
Fyre
What a clusterf*ck.
Seeing things unfold as they did was hilarious. I didn't hear about this festival until the fallout really. Even then it was still a little muddy to me as to what was going on. Fyre is the Netflix film that documents the efforts to put together a concert event on an island. The best thing this documentary has going for it is the behind the scenes footage, so we get firsthand accounts and we get to see what actually happened unfold in a glorious dumpster fire.
The interviews of those who worked there give tremendous insight into the ego of the people that were putting this thing on. If you throw enough money at your problems, they will eventually go away right? That had to have been the thought process of the people here. Yet it creates more problems down the road. Luxury tents turn out to be hurricane survivor tents; gourmet food turns out to be a slice of cheese on some bread. The insane levels of what happened here are hilarious to the viewer, but most likely traumatizing for those who attended. Although, I don’t know how much sympathy I can give people who spend thousands of dollars to go see a concert. There is a sense of privilege to those people that I simply cannot connect with.
It seems that it was a slow build from a dream to literally deceit. There were so many times when the whole thing should have been called off, but it wasn’t. The hole that was dug kept getting deeper. I literally laughed out loud and had my jaw open with awe at the part where the guy explains the depths he was willing to go to get the bottled water delivered to the event. Talk about taking one for the team. A guy tells the event organizers that you cannot build enough lodgings on this island, it is literally impossible. They fire him and do it themselves. That’s the level of ineptitude these people had.
Give the film a watch. Enjoy the carnage of destruction.