This is a slightly unusual take on the nightclub bouncer documentary. It focuses on three guys who look to be in their late 40s or early 50s still working the doors. There isn't much in the way of action or violence. There are scenes of clubbing. It instead focuses on their lives and feelings about their jobs.
Little is said about their plans after being a bouncer, which is maybe the elephant in the room? These are men who really should have settled into a stable day job with a family, however seem to have never grown up into adulthood. They seem to have become entranced by the Berlin nightlife and the attention this brings them.
These men were living an economically fragile existence when this was made, who knows what they are doing since the pandemic. The same can be said for those DJs who decamped from around the world to live their dreams in Berlin.
The production values are on par with a TV show or professional YouTube production and is mainly in German with English subtitles.
Fine to pass the time but it certainly wouldn't encourage me to either want to move to Berlin or visit these clubs with odd door policies. Nor would I wish to be a bouncer there, particularly at their advancing ages.
Being about Berlin there is of course some art shoehorned in so expect to see moody black and white photography and female nudity for no apparent reason.
