Reaction to Berlin Calling

1.       Drugs are Ickarus’s way of relaxing and his way of trying to escape the world so he can focus more on his work.

2.       The fans are taking the drugs to enhance their experience, they are taking them during and after the concerts, they are taking them orally, and taking everything, but heroin.

3.       The subculture focuses on drugs most likely it enhances the experience of the music to the point of an extreme and the wild ride people experience from that gets them addicted to the drugs and they continue to do it.

4.       People in this society wallow in darkness and take drugs and fornicate each other like it’s nothing.

5.       I don’t think so because this is just one subculture of a massively huge infrastructure within the German economy. Also even though Ickarus was in the ward he still wanted to work when he wasn’t trying to get better he even put his work before his health that shows the dedication the Germans have toward their work ethic.

My reaction to this film would be that it was an okay film. For being a cult following movie the quality of the video itself was not bad and the story is the classic story of a man who goes through great tribulations and becomes stronger by the end of it. Cultural differences in the movie well for one when Ickarus’s Girlfriend is trying to find him in the bathroom stalls and we see those two people fornicating was quite unexpected. Showing the inside of the toilet in Ickarus’s house was also another unexpected event. The fact that this is an X-rated movie is quite a shock because no one in the USA would dare do something like this because one organization or another would bitch about it and whine to the government like the statists they are. All in all the story of Ickarus and his development in the story is a good one I just wish they would explain his schizophrenia was he born with it or was the cause of it the drugs they briefly mentioned it in the movie and I ,as a viewer, would have liked to know more about it. Overall the movie besides the X-rated material was alright.