‘Fyre’ seeks to find justice

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Indy Hurley

Remember the Fyre Festival? If not, here’s a little recap.

Designed with the purpose of promoting their new app called Fyre, which was supposed to be an easy platform for consumers to book music acts, the organizers of this festival advertised it as a “luxury experience” for people to party on a private island in the Bahamas where guests could watch performances by famous musicians and eat fancy food.

With ticket prices costing thousands of dollars, attendees were expecting to get the luxury experience they were promised.

However, that never happened.

Customers were promised quality food like fresh sushi, but instead got cheese sandwiches. They were promised luxury tents with all amenities provided, but instead they slept in leftover hurricane tents that were soaking wet.

The new Netflix documentary “Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened” premiered on the streaming service in January and has since garnered a lot of attention.

Documentaries often get bad reputations, and I admit that some are just boring, but the “Fyre” documentary is definitely one of the most interesting ones that I have seen. Using actual footage from the event and testimonies from customers and employees bashing the contemptible organizer Billy McFarland, who was the mastermind behind this fraud, the film is easy to enjoy.

The most memorable person from the documentary for many people was Maryann Rolle, the caterer of the event who never got paid for her services. Rolle recalls her heart-wrenching story of almost losing all of her money and her business because of the Fyre Festival.

After the Netflix documentary aired, $200,000 has been raised for Rolle on a GoFundMe page, which shows how her story and this documentary has impacted viewers worldwide.

If you want to try giving documentaries a try, or just need something new to watch on Netflix, “Frye” would be my recommendation.