Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee (2016). Directed by Nanette Burstein. This documentary focuses on the anti-virus software mogul John McAfee. During the 2009 recession, McAfee moved to Belize and lived the high life, sleeping with young women and hiring bodyguards with rap sheets a mile long on their records. McAfee controlled Belize and was beloved by the locals. While businesses were paying people $25 a day for menial labor, McAfee was paying them $45.
McAfee's neighbor is fellow American Gregory Faull, a retired, blue collar construction worker. While McAfee is hanging around with bodyguards armed with machine guns and having a new girlfriend by his side every week, Faull is a hard-working, dirt-under-his fingernails type who leads the quiet life. This is Ric Flair, with a new girlfriend riding Space Mountain and his expensive clothes, jets and limousines against the family man and working class hero Ricky Steamboat.
Faull hated the fact that McAfee allowed his rottweilers to roam around freely on the beach without a leash. Faull filed a police report but that went nowhere because McAfee donated tasers, boots, handcuffs, stun guns to the Belize police and he's well liked by them. In an act of vengeance, Faull poisoned one of McAfee's dogs. McAfee retaliated by orchestrating Faull's murder. McAfee is a smart enough man: the murder conviction in Belize is below 3%. A scientist found a fingernail in Faull's hair but the police doesn't have a DNA lab. McAfee got away with murder.
The film zeroes in on McAfee's skeletons in his closet (there are many) it also focuses on the positive contributions he made to the tech industry. In the mid-80's many computer programmers were ignorant of viruses and the amount of damage it can do to a PC. Hackers exploited people's ignorance. The first virus was The Pakistani Brain. McAfee figured out what it was and shut it down. He also knew how to shut down the Michelangelo Virus, which was around late '86, 1987.
