When I was first confronted with the documentary, I was curious If this was meant as joke for the elite to laugh at lower-class people.
I have to admit I was wrong.
This series shows how a human in a well-developed country can fall into the pit called "Reeperbahn", the dark-side of first world countries, just to become addicted, spoiled and poor.
It reflects on our society as it makes us laugh at people living the opposite of a healthy and good life but showing us, the viewer, how we should feel bad for laughing. We should feel bad for those people, as our system has caused those great people, people who have been at Harvard, well-known privileged workers or brave security men, risking their lifes just so we can live in our bubble of wealth and decadence.
The camera man captures this brutality of our system in third-person narrative not interveining with the actions.
Furthermore this leads to criticism of the viewer who does nothing more to prevent said actions, as the camera man does.
This series should be shown to everyone who wants a better life for themselves or their neighbor. Ultimately I even want to say that showing every single person on earth these pictures could lead to an end of violence, misunderstanding and crimes.
