Berlin Calling

 What do drugs mean to Ickarus?
1. Drugs is a way of life to lckarus. He it makes him think that his music is better.
Why, when, and how are his fans taking drugs, and which drugs do they take?
2. Drugs are everywhere in the techno party crowd. Ecstasy and cocaine are noticalbe. The usage of this drugs make them feel move connected to the notes.
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?
3. I think that the subculuter he is in makes drugs seem normal. He is in the subculture that rebellion against society. Doing hard drugs in not a acceptable and anyone that does is thought to be a rebel.
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?
4. I grew up in a small town, where everyone knows everyone , and drugs is not acceptable. Their is a vast difference between the movie and my hometown. What is similar is that the music, a lot of techno music is listened to in my home town.
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?
5. It is hard to judge the youth culutre just by this movie. Their is a lot of different aspects of the german youth culture. That is why I can't state my opinion of the german culuter just by this movie.
 Which similar "cult movies" of US origin have you seen, if any?
6. I have not seen any movie like this.

What jumped out to me, won't seem shocking to most. That is the doing drugs and hooking up with women. I came from a town were you have to be dating a person for a while before having sex. I can see why society doesn't accept being hard drugs. The effects of the drugs have such a negitave outcome. It is movie like make never want to do drugs.