Berlin Calling

1.     I believe that drugs are what Ickarus thinks his inspiration comes from so he needs to take them in order to produce music. I also think he just enjoys them, and he is so addicted that that point that he just takes them. It also comes with the career that he has, because everyone that goes to his shows are also taking those drugs.

2.        His fans take drugs when they go to his show and they take ecstasy, cocaine, and other weird prescription pills. They mostly take pills but you have to snort ecstasy… so they snort that.

3.       The subculture that Ickarus is in is all about the drugs and hallucinating and the bright lights and such. They are very harmful but he doesn’t see that because it is his lifestyle. All of his friends do them, and he is probably encouraged to take those things because they think it will make his music better.

4.       Well I don’t do drugs, so it’s a little hard to find a lot of similarities here but there is an event that happens every year in Las Vegas, NV call Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC). This carnival is a 3 day long festival of house music similar to the music that Ickarus makes. Every year a bunch of youth go and take a ton of drugs and listen to the music. It’s the only thing that I could compare to being like the subculture that Ickarus is a part of.

5.      If you are looking at the youth in this movie I don’t think there is much hope for the future of Germany. While Ickarus positively benefitted from rehab, all of the people that went to Ickarus’s concerts didn’t go to rehab and they still probably have a huge drug problem. Doing that hardcore of drugs isn’t something that you just stop doing because it’s time to get your life together. Ickarus suffered and had to work hard to get over his addiction. I don’t think everyone is going to do that well. These drugs ruin your life.

6.     No I have not seen any other movies like this mostly because it’s not really the type of movie that I enjoy watching. While it was interesting (and definitely way better to watch than an educational video), I just don’t like how self-destructive everyone was in the movie.

I liked the film, but there were things about it that I just didn’t always agree with. This is fine, because I don’t have to agree with it. I did not like how self-destructive all of the characters were and I did not like the amount of drugs that they did. It was a movie to depict the youth of Germany, however, so it depicted that well and it showed that one person could come out of using all of those drugs and lead a normal life without them. It also showed the dangerous side of addiction and what drugs can do to you if you use them. While listening to that type of music and doing drugs is present in the United States, I think it is more common in Germany and more popular amongst the youth.