Last year there was a huge music festival planned to take place in the Bahamas. The festival looked like nothing ever created before. All the biggest models and influencers promoted the festival and claimed to be going. The marketing for the festival was amazing and ultimately led to the rediculsy priced festival to sell out. When people showed up to the festival, it was a disaster. People had to sleep in broken tents with barley any food or water. It was far from the luxury festival the guests were promised. The music festival was arguably the biggest music festival fail in history. Netflix and Hulu each created a documentary on the epic disaster.
I watched both documentaries over the weekend. I enjoyed both of the documentaries but each had different strengths. The Hulu documentary gave a deeper background of the man in charge of the festival, who commented fraud, and had taped interviews with him. The Hulu documentary did not give many specific details about the festival, it focused more on the creator.
The Netflix documentary did not give as much information on the creators past but gave much more information on the actual festival. It did not have any interviews with the creator but it did have more interviews with people involved in the festival. It also gave more information on what happened after the festival and how the creator continued to fraud people despite being caught.
Overall, I am glad that I watched both documentaries because I learned many interesting things unique to each documentary. If I had to chose one to recommend to a friend, I would recommend the Netflix documentary. I chose the Netflix documentary because it gave more interesting details.
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