The movie "Berlin Calling" is that of the youth, and how it impacts society, and how youth individuals act. In the movie the main character Ickarus is a constant drug user, he seems to daily be consuming some sort of drug. Ecstasy to MDA to almost any drug one could think of is at one point found in Ickarus's blood stream. To him these pills make his life better, they I believe help him cope with his life. For we learn later on how as an 18 year old his mother died and his father could hardly raise him and his brother. So he went into the dj business. As a dj this is how Ickarus has access to all these drugs, through the "night life" seen. They are an excitement in his life for him and make his club dj-ing experience more fun. The movie shows how his usual does of cocaine and what have you starts to eat away at his life and Ickarus begins to make poor decisions in his life. The negative effects of the drugs seem to be no matter, for he continues to use.
Many of the youth in this movie seem to be using and taking many sorts of drugs. They too find these avalible at any "night life" event. They are shown dealing in the bathrooms of the clubs. It seems that this is infact the popular thing to do at this point in time. These young people feel it give more excitement to their lives and makes things in live feel so much more better. This is not a foreign concept for even here today in America, people are using drugs to feel the excitement or to fit into the crowd of people doing this "fad". Even in small towns kids are smoking "weed" to feel "cool". The feeling of power over their own bodies and being able to get that high from a drug regardless of the affects, seems to draw youth into the fad of using.
This life would be shocking for me, I am from a smaller community, yet not a "sheltered" one. Kids in my high school did all sorts of drugs, but this form of mass dealing I suppose you could explain it as is just obscured. The fact that the drugs are so easily excess-able and that even in public places these people are taking the drugs right there. Drug usuing is nothing new in these times, for even now Colorado has legalized "weed".
Questions:
Drugs to Ickarus seem to be a way to add more excitement to his life, and yet almost a way to cope with his life
The fans are taking drugs in the bathrooms of the clubs, they are sold the drugs right there, and also take "line" off of the back of the toliets, they take any from cocaine to ecstasy
Ickarus focus on drugs because that seems to be what his life revolves around after a while it seems that he enjoys the excitement it brings and helps him with his dj ing
people in my home place seem to not be anything like that of the movie. I know people in high school who took drugs, but nothing of this sort. The fact that you could buy them right in a bathroom of a club is nothing that I could imagine.
the youth culture seemed to want nothing of the old ways in Germany, from this movie. They defiantly had the power to change the way that Germany is viewed in the industrial aspect, if none of the youth fall in line and pick up after those generations that were before them
Walk the line is about Johnny Cash, it shows his influence on people, which is similar to Ickarus's influence in this movie.
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