Berlin calling

1. What do drugs mean to Ickarus?

• Drugs mean above everything else to Ickarus. In the company of his manager and girlfriend Mathilde, the Berlin DJ is taking stimulant drugs to endure long hours of his musical performances.

2. Why, when, and how are his fans taking drugs, and which drugs do they take?

• His fans also are taking drugs too as they keep on getting entertained during the day and at night. In addition to alcohol and stimulant drugs, Ickarus and his team consumed ecstasy tablets in different nightclubs as a routine practice.

3. While we can see that his drug habits get him ill and into a psychosis, and while we witness his relapse and inability to work successfully, why does the subculture Ickarus belongs to focus on drugs?

• Despite the fact that drug habits throw Ickarus into psychosis and he is unable to carry on with his performances, members of the subculture to which he belongs still focus on drugs due to the prevailing drug addiction. It is evident that his friends such as Pea,Corinna, Goa Gebhard, and Crystal Pete cannot lead normal lives without taking drugs. The practices of the sub-culture depicted in the movie such as alcoholism, drug addiction, and prostitution are congruent to the behavior of deviant youths in my society 

4. Compare the standards you know from your home society with the people you see depicted in this movie. Which are the stark differences and contrasts?

• The only difference is that the law enforcement agencies in my society relentlessly work to prevent youths from engaging in the outlawed practices.

5. Germany is considered a strong industrial nation the world over. Do you think that the youth culture as depicted here could change that? How about work ethics of Ickarus and of Alice, the label director who fires and then re-signs him?

• Germany is an industrialized nation, the behavior of the youth will definitely reverse the course of its economic development because excessive consumption of drugs will deprive the nation of the much needed skilled labor force in the future.

6. Which similar "cult movies" of US origin have you seen, if any?

• “Berlin calling” is a cult movie contextually similar to the American “Easy Writer”.