Fiasco total: La tragedia de Astroworld

When this incident happened, I was glued to social media as it was all going down. Once the concert attendees were tearing down gates and barriers to enter the venue, I wasn't surprised the disaster happened. I had never seen anything like that before and I have been to a lot of concerts. I'm not sure if it was just unruliness that came from youth finally being allowed out of the house for a music event mid-pandemic. My heart goes out to the families of the people lost at the concert. Nobody expects going to a concert would lead to a family member's demise. Doesn't seem like anyone was held accountable in the end and Travis Scott still continues to be a popular artist though I can't name any of his songs.

I just finished watching this documentary, and I must say, I'm both impressed and massively devastated. It's hard to comment on the filmmaking when the subject matter is so reprehensible, but I need to give props to the documentarians for weaving together an emotionally engaging, yet fair and balanced narrative drawn from numerous first-hand accounts. I particularly liked the input from the gentleman working for the company that performed the investigation, calling the concert promoters and artists to task by revealing the many blatant planning and safety transgressions leading to all those pointless deaths. Shame be upon them and their misguided greed. I hope they've learned from their grievous humanitarian error, thus enabling them to put their shame in the rearview.

The world opened up in 2021 after the COVID-19 pandemic. World-famous rapper Travis Scott put on another huge event, a two-day Astroworld festival. Tickets sold out in thirty minutes. As people arrived at the site, the chaos began; all control was lost, and people stormed the gates. The concert began, and a massive crowd tried to reach the front of the stage.

This is the most harrowing in the Trainwreck series that I've seen so far, this one is truly disturbing, it simply should not have happened.

Nobody seemed willing to take any responsibility for what happened; everyone played a part, from the encouragement to go too far from the stage, to the ineptitude of the security team, Live Nation, the planners, and the crowd themselves. It must have been terrifying for those in the crowd; absolutely awful.

The discussion about the compression of people is horrific, and the footage of people being crushed on stage is genuinely grotesque; it's sickening. The interviews are almost too much, they really hit hard.

If you're in the UK or a football fan, you'll be aware of the Hillsborough tragedy, where people were crushed at an overcrowded stadium-something that should never have happened, nor should the events here.

Ayden Cruz, respect! The fabulous nurse too, huge respect! They're the real superstars.

It should not have happened.

8/10.

This is a well done documentary do not get me wrong but it is very intense. There were times when I felt I was at the concert. Very Strange.

The victims testimonies teared me up a bit so be prepared for those. The negative reviews mentioned the tone was to sway our opinions towards Travis but we really did not have to, the proof was in this documentary of what happened. Total neglect from involved.

The documentary did what it was supposed to do and that is bring the art in motion to the viewer and that is what the director did here. Towards the end did feel rushed but all in all id definitely recommend watching this.

This documentary was genuinely so hard to watch as they made the entire thing as emotional as possible 😭, it really felt like I couldn't breathe the entire time and really made me feel like I was there in the awful tragedy. It was very well made and was so sad the entire way throughout, it really gave me so much more insight into the incident and definitely made me think so much deeper about it. Live Nation handled it horribly and Travis really could've stopped performing during his time, even though he couldn't "stop the show", he was was the show, and he could've just put the mic down. Also the black and white forehead rub was a terrible apology. R. I. P to all of the lives lost in the incident 🕊.