The Anarchists

This is a good doc. A lot of these reviews seem biased against anarchism in general and exhibit a failure to understand the point of a documentary. For example: you don't have to like the people in a documentary. Some excellent documentaries are about extremely horrible people. This is worth watching. I learned some stuff.

Good God - What a train wreck of humanity. This is a compelling documentary - but compelling in the way that one cannot tear oneself away from viewing the scene of a horrible accident. It's a well-done setup, but unfortunately for the filmmakers, the subjects of this documentary are so unlikeable, so cluelessly self-absorbed, and so irredeemably stupid that there is little enlightenment on offer and even less sympathy to give. Anarchists? Hardly - just a motley crew of drug dealers, fakes, frauds, charlatans, and other assorted liars, scammers, and narcissistic idiots. Anarchy as a way of life may already be nothing but a pipe dream for the hopelessly clueless, but if this cast of drug-addled imbeciles, hippies, and meth-heads, and the crypto scammers for whom they serve as useful idiots are any indication, that pipe dream is further away from reality than ever. So kudos to the filmmakers for the effort, but ultimately, one is left not asking, "Who did it?" but rather "Who cares?"

So many reviewers seem to think we're supposed to admire the subjects of this documentary. Their hubris, naïveté and bag of rocks dumbness combined with the truly dangerous nature of Acapulco for people who don't even speak the language let alone have street smarts tells me that we will eventually see what happens when the idealism of rich people mistaking privilege and hedonism for freedom meets a truly lawless system.

It's a slow build but I am confident it's going somewhere.

First, because it is most important, I will note that nobody in this documentary besides the anti fascists protesting in the streets shown briefly are actual anarchists. Nothing about capitalism is anarchist at all.

I enjoy this documentary because their ideology is hilarious and falls apart easily, even as seen in the documentary. The documentary is good for laughing at dumb people who believe they're smart.

A look at a movement that espouses "anarchy" and creates a community in Mexico. In creating this community the group seems to build an alt capitalist group. Their philosophy is based on the promise of bit coin, let's not pay taxes, and I make the rules I claim don't exist. There is nothing in this documentary that advocates for Anarchy so I am puzzles about why so many reviewers are stating that falsehood. The further you watch this film the more you realize that these new Randites are part of a cult detached from reality. This behavior is nothing new. I was around in the 60s when a similar mentality existed. I participated in it for a while til my adult critical thinking skills kicked in. Definitely we need change but it's not reinventing the old system with new versions of the old. The Anarchist is an excellent reminder of how not to build a better mouse trap.