Review: Netflix’s Woodstock ’99 doc 'Trainwreck' is secretly an origin story for the war between millennials and boomers
frontman Jonathan Davis, in stark contrast to Scher’s textbook victim-blaming. Although both docs also feature harrowing anecdotes from attendees, most of whom were teenagers at the time, some of the most damning testimony comes from the lower-level Woodstock ’99 staffersconsults. There are behind-the-scenes accounts of overtaxed medical tents, overflowing porta-potties, and kids climbing over plywood walls to invade a sound tower nicknamed “the Alamo.
Now middle aged, these interviewees talk about the festival the way veterans talk about war. And the well-supported conclusion most arrive at is that the root of the catastrophe wasn’t the heat or the drugs or the chest-thumping bros or the aggro nu-metal acts. No, the culprit was greed. Greed that cut costs by skimping on amenities and gouging on necessities. Greed that fostered aatmosphere by licensing out an uncensored Woodstock ’99 pay-per-view package .
If this all sounds familiar, that’s because the Woodstock ’99 model—a circular firing squad of parental selfishness and denial, and frustrated filial acting-out—has since become the dominant intergenerational dynamic. It’s present in the discourse over
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