The Bouncer is a short film made for Channel 4 I found a while ago but forgot to blog about at the time. The film depicts the recount of a man who acts as a bouncer for a nightclub, who is training in the gym. Only the particular event he is recalling is of the night a rowdy man kills his work friend over a petty dispute, and the Bouncer takes out revenge on him by hunting him down and killing him. The Bouncer is then told to stop strangling his mate in the gym by a police officer, having been lost in his memory; and the audience then comes to the realisation that the gym they are training in is in a prison.
I like this short film because of this interesting plot twist in the narrative, because we are lead to assume that he got away with it until the very end. The film carries many moral messages, both subliminal and explicit, and the audience are left to different interpretations of whether what the bouncer did in the film was right, wrong, or a confusing example of both at once, as in my view it was sort of vigilante justice. I found the story very compelling and it received a lot of positive reviews from people, especially bouncers who can relate to the subject matter and have been through similar experiences. I have read some of these accounts online and found that the film is very truthful and honest to life, no matter how brutal it may be.
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