To call John McAfee a man of style would be like calling Jesus from Tiffany. And McAfee went through a lot of life to become the colorful man he became – he took part in the Apollo missions that landed man on the moon, was one of the world’s greatest experts in computer viruses, created the well-known security software that bears his name, from which he retired in the 1990s, and since then has only been an officer in his own right the crazy one He also may have murdered his neighbor in Belize, where he was on the run from US authorities, and that’s just the backstory to the new Netflix documentary, Anti-Hero: The Wild Life of John McAfee.
The documentary begins in 2012, when a not-so-smart journalist and photographer joined on behalf of Vice McAfee’s escape from Belize to Guatemala, and began to follow his bizarre exploits. From the first meeting (in which he mostly imitated people with paralysis) through crossing the border to Guatemala (illegally, which also complicated the journalists) to… Ok, we won’t tell you what McAfee’s final fate is so as not to spoil the sequel, but we’ll just say that drugs, A weapon and also a candidacy for the presidency of the USA are hidden later.
Considering the age we live in, McAfee’s character is particularly interesting in the context of how much money and power can corrupt, and sometimes even drive the mind crazy. Five minutes of camera is enough to see that McAfee was paranoid, eccentric and, although he was charismatic, just a strange type. However, over the years he has collected quite a few people who believe in his paranoia, and see it all as a real conspiracy theory, how surprising. The documentary tries to shed light on some of the many question marks surrounding the life of John McAfee.
“Anti-Hero: The Wild Life of John McAfee,” now available on Netflix