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How about some interaction?


Overall I enjoyed the movie, but it was a bit like an extended version of a bar rescue or some such show where a run down bar is competing against newer and hipper bars. We do see a bit of life through the eyes of two principle people but almost zero of that actually has to do with the interaction that would start with "Hey bartender...". I suppose that is a completely different show.

This movie was really well done, well shot and well edited. From the end credits, it is clear they interviewed and followed many people and then focused on the more compelling stories so we were not stuck or forced into watching people we were not interested in. But the star of this movie was the drink list. Secondly we had stars which were the bars. Finally we followed characters that took us to those bars as made the drinks for us. But we never once saw how a bartender interacts with people, well other than a cute tiny piece where at a corner bar the owner/bartender repeatedly told one patron "no, he is not an *beep* to a drunk patron who may have otherwise started a fight. That to me, is a big part of the corner bartender. Again that closeness is different than what is being taught at the world's best cocktail bars where they teach a distance between bartender and customer and to "not get close". They do say while making the drink the buyer should think they are the most important person in the bar. I suppose in that respect, they are saying if you want the bartender's time or attention you need to pay for it. It is a business, and for them it works. It just is not exceptionally compelling just profitable.

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