Bonfyre of Inanities
By ice rivers
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One of the first documentaries to be released last year was Fyre, released in mid-January 2019 by Director Chris Smith. The something about Fyre is the tragi-comic vanity and determination that combine for a bonfire of humiliation, nemesis, hypocrisy and hilarity as people with too much money invent new ways to waste it on the "vision" of incompetent promoters who are willing to spend it to realize a dream that proves to be impossible.
It is the story of the doomed Fyre festival, the biggest most expansive party that never happened.
2019 was the 50th year celebration of Woodstock, the festival to end all festivals. Fyre was meant to be a bigger deal than Woodstock because the festival goers would have to come from a higher class than the "hippies in a pisshole" who occupied Woodstock.
Everything about the "festival" goes wrong in fascinating inevitability and in the slow motion of those within a car crash. I've been in one actual very serious car crash when we were blindsided by a smei-truck. The crash and spin only took a few seconds but seemed to last much longer. During that spin, I remember realizing that whatever was about to happen was supposed to happen but we sure as hell didn't expect it or want it to happen. We knew that when we came out of this spin, one way or the other, we would never be the same. We survived somehow but we changed.
Watching Fyre, the viewer is able to see the crash coming even before the real and reel life promoters of the festival so we brace for whatever is going to happen as it unreels before our less than sympathetic eyes.
We see where it's going yet we can't help but watch and laugh as the capitalistic catastrophe looms, approaches and consumes..
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On Netflix. Might give it a
On Netflix. Might give it a go...
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