Basically a hit job on Billy
McFarland.
After gathering what information I could from Fyre Fraud, it's well
deserved. This seems like the documentary assumed the viewers would
know information before hand. I might have missed a few notes but I
kept asking for more details and it's not cause the documentary had
me hooked but because I felt left behind. I wouldn't have been
watching the documentary had I known all the information.
Oddly, it
is a fond interest of mine to discover events with large gatherings
of people that have turned into disaster. In college I aided a
diversity club that focused on Japanese culture. Every year, we have
to put on an event that hosted about 500 people and even we'd be
behind on task, it seemed everyone just assumed we'd be able to get
it done. The frustrating part of documentary(many other documentary
have this same issue) that Fyre Fraud would flash headlines but would
not walk through why it's a problem,just that it's a problem and we
the viewer should be upset because. For example, apparently McFarland
didn't get on the island to plan the Fyre Festival until a few months
beforehand. As someone, who has never planned planned a concert I
have no idea of the process and why Billy was planning with such
little time but from what the documentary was trying to make me feel
I'm supposed to hate Billy for it. I'm no dumby, I understand that
planning a festival takes a considerate amount of time but as someone
whose never planned one I would like to learn details why. In the
end, I didn't learn much about this particular aspect of this
disaster. This similar to a few angles the documentary tried making
the audience upset about like Magnesis. The documentary made it seem
like it was get rich quick scam McFarland did to reach his position
of power but I can't repeat to another person what the point of the
product was besides being application of sorts to credit cards.
I
don't like McFarland and by no means do I want to fend him against
Fyre Fraud; I simply don't like how the documentary would drop points
and want us to its word for it that it's either accurate or bad. The
car crash known as Fyre Festival is a spectacle I don't want to look
away but Fyre Fraud gave me nothing to look at just told me how to
feel. Somewhat of a hook was the fact filmakers got to interview
McFarland. Definitely a selling point in their trailer. I overall
feel the interview was incredibly wasted and continued on the rest of
the shallow cartoonish ruse. They flatout ask Billy how he responds
to being labeled as a sociopath. What kind of journalism is that?
It's as subtle as a pro wrestling promo. Now, the documentary
could've been a ploy dropped by Hulu to get folks lost on how
exclusive the documentary is that came out on Netflix at the exact
same time dealing with the exact same topic. I plan on seeing it
because I want more detail but it seems from the reaction that the
Netflix one aims at making the individuals that went look stupid and
deserving of this outcome while the hulu one aims at making McFarland
a predator. Rich or not, I don't think anyone deserves this sort of
let down. I may not even stop at the Netflix documentary if I get the
motivation. There's a lot of great youtubers who cover such man made
disasters, who I'm impressed; often it deals with disasters at
amusements park but with the hype Fyre Festival got it looked to be
an amusement park if it were to live up to the hype.
The way I
would've orchestrated this documentary was Act 1, have someone who
was along for the setup explain how Billy got them involved, and have
them explain the process needed in setting a festival up and why Fyre
obviously didn't do that. Act 2, follow a victim of the Fyre Festival
from the purchasing of the tickets to the flight to the quick
revelation that the lodges were crap, food was crap and the music was
not coming. Fyre Fraud did a little of this by it feel likes a lot of
it was assumed that we knew how they felt when they found out. The
frustration would have me roasting those damn pigs. Act 3, finsih it
with McFarland's point of view. Let him try to convince us why he's
right than show he's the devil. The FBI got him so no one watching
will fall for his words. His interview seemed like it was only 10
minutes which seems pointless in showing such dumb antagonistic
questions.
I wouldn't recommend this. The whole time I just wanted to
jump on Wikipedia to learn about what they were talking about and a
documentary should have that take care of. Also, is it just me or did
that skinny blonde expert sound a lot like Mindy Kaling. C+
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