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Hey Guys,

I haven't been to the Woodstock '99 festival (it happened a year before I was born). But I've always been interested in any counter-culture/musical stuff that was happening anywhere, anytime and anyhow.

So, I'm watching the HBO documentary film about Woodstock '99, and I jus can't keep myself from getting frustrated how much his documentary seems forced, and idiotic.

I mean, first of all, they are applying 2021 values to judge a 1990s festival (they even try doing this in he film with the Woodstock '69 festival – which seems even more absurd):

1. Like there's a 10min part about a concert by a rapper named DMX or something, and he's singing a song where he word "******" is being shouted by the crowd. And the commentators in he documentary are all about "how the black minority at the estival must've felt, when their white friends were shouting '******'". Like... what?

1.1 When you see both white and black people dancing and singing the word. Or you can see just pictures from the event, where here's plenty of people of any skin colour having fun together.

2. There's a 5-10min part about how women were topless at that festival and how hat is showing us how the 90s culture was all about making women feel inferior, or that they were only sexualised objects (and not real participants).

2.1 Even though on the photos/videos from the festival the are shown in the film, you see men and women laughing and having fun, and not caring about touching breasts or whatever (on most of the videos shown from the concerts, you even get the idea, that the men touching those breasts are boyfriends or whatever of the girls).


The point here being that the documentary wants to impose some sort of interpretation of those events on me, but it does so in showing me elements that were actually good (not bad).

This goes on.

The documentary also shows many people taking about what an awful experience the whole event was. How everything went wrong. There ain't a single thing that was good about it apparently.

In my opinion (based on the documentary itself) the film shows only a fractured picture of the festival, and is trying to make that event seem like a "lesson from the past", but art the same time it's incapable of doing so (as you see all these people having fun, and dancing, singing, etc).




The doucmetntary leaves me with a distaste.

But not with a distaste for the festival, but for people making documentaries at HBO or any other big american company.
It all makes no sense.

1. How come you can see all these happy people having fun, and yet saying it was a nightmare?
2. How can you say it was all a nightmare, but then show photos and videos of people having immensely a lo of fun?
3. Why would you do this documentary in he first place? Why not show me archive footage (apparently there's plenty of it), and let me decide for myself was I a nightmare or no?

Also, most of the stuff the authors are saying where awful (like: mud everywhere, the showers not working, the toilets being overused, people having and using drugs), would seem to me perfectly normal and fine. Like...where do you thin you're going to? A corporate yoga class? It's a 90s hippie-ish festival! What were you expecting?



My point is:

Are there any Woodstock '99 attendees around here? Can anyone tell me they actually thought of this festival as a "nightmare"? Or was it the other way around? Or was it something in the middle?
Was it worth it? Was it not worth it? Say your thoughts on it (and on thee documentary, iff you will)!

Speak up!
Educate me, please

This document leaves me only with thoughts of how low people would go in order to make some sort of "politically correct" propaganda (I'm no sure if this sound well, but I'll be glad to explain more thoroughly if someone would feel offended).





The worst part of the documentary is this guy called Morris or something. He's a journalist for he New York times apparently. Every time he speaks I just wan to get up front he couch and punch the screen in. Like what the hell are you talking about man?

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