Fyre (2019)

IMDb plot summary: An exclusive behind the scenes look at the infamous unraveling of the Fyre music festival.

Directed by Chris Smith.

Fyre is one of the two Fyre Festival documentaries released at the same time. This one was the one released on Netflix. I couldn't tell you anything about the other one or if this one is better than it. I do know the story it's telling is absolutely insane: a group of people who attempt to put on a giant music festival with zero preparation and no effort put into things as simple as ensuring that there were enough beds, or that people could get water. It's wild. Watching it made me extremely claustrophobic and frightened for the times that i have had to do administrative paperwork -- I'm pretty sure this is how this is going to go every time, because i don't trust myself with that, so I felt this anxiety watching it, thinking, "Oh no, what if I too was in charge of a music festival?" (Of course, the nice thing is that I don't ever have to be in charge of a music festival. The organizers should also have made that choice.) The actual festival itself is gone through very quickly and then almost blown past. We almost don't get an ending piece to it. We jump from first night, where people arrive and are getting angry, to suddenly everybody's home. The stories that are most compelling are those of the people who knew this was going to be a disaster and were trying to stop it, saying, "Hey, we've got to tell people the truth about this." It's an interesting story, and this film does a pretty good job telling it. I wish I knew a little bit more about the aftermath -- that gets overlooked a little bit in this story -- but still definitely an interesting film to watch, especially if you were there for the memes and always wondered how did this happen in the first place.

🎥 Fyre (2019)

📊 Ranked #2062/4222 on my Flickchart

🎯 Flickscore™: 51

beat VeggieTales: Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler (#2152 → #2153)

lost to Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (held at #1122)

lost to Kajaki (held at #1635)

lost to I Lost My Body (held at #1898)

lost to The Bishop's Wife (held at #2024)

beat Bonnie and Clyde (#2088 → #2089)

lost to The Last Castle (held at #2056)

beat America's Sweethearts (#2072 → #2073)

beat Disturbia (#2064 → #2065)

lost to EDtv (held at #2060)

beat Spy Game (#2062 → #2063)