Berlin Calling

1.1.       I think drugs serve a sense of relaxation and escapes for Ickarus. He is able to listen to his music and just forget about everything else that is happening around him.

2  2.     Ickarus fans take drugs before, after and during his gigs. They take every kind of drug from pills, smoking and snorting them. They would take ecstasy and ketamine. I feel as if they do it the same reason as Ickarus so they can escape in the music and forget about everything else in their lives.

3.   3.    I think the music is an escape and Ickarus felt he could not fully escape unless he was on drugs and he liked the feeling they provided him so he could forget about everything else.

4.  4.     People I know from home do not take as strong of drugs that are in the movie. I have seen a lot of marijuana, which seems to be the drug of choice here, but not a whole lot of the heavier stuff.

5.    6.   The work ethics of Ickarus would not be something that would be tolerated here. When stuff like this happens to celebrities today they get put all over tabloids and even loose fans for their action while Ickarus doesn’t seem to get any sort of shame. Alice on the other hand seems to be in it just for the money. She dropped him as a client because of how unstable he was but as soon as she found out the record was good she wanted him back.

6.   6.    I just recently saw the movie Flight. It was very graphic in drug and alcohol abuse. Other than that there are movies that abuse marijuana such as Grandmas Boy and Ted but they do not do, or show, the harsher drugs they use.

This entire movie was very interesting. I was surprised how they showed that everyone at the show was on drugs making it seem like that was the normal typical night at Ickarus shows. Everyone seemed to be having a good time but they had to be on drugs to do it and this seems like an image you do not want to portray for the younger community in Germany. I was surprised at the party house that they had. They was everyone was drinking and doing drugs in the middle of the day. If something like that exited here it would be busted and shut down. I was also surprised at how Ickarus girlfriend seemed to have a girlfriend and when it seemed like he was mad about her cheating on him they ended up having a three-way, which made no sense to me. This movie was very graphic in the sex and drug abuse which I was kind of expecting from what we had talked about in class but it was weird to actually see it because that stuff does not really happen here. I already said this earlier but if a celebrity today did what Ickarus did they would be all over tabloids and they would lose fans. He goes into rehab and gets a top selling record which I also feel sends a bad message. The hospital was a little weird to me, how they let Ickarus come and go as he pleases and how they let him completely destroy the place and stay that would not e tolerated here he would have been sent somewhere else. I was not a huge fan of the movie it made me really mad a lot and I did not care for the main character and his attitude nor for his girlfriend and the way he treated her and how she kept taking him back. The ending of the movie sucked it was very unclear of what had happened and what was going on. They did not say whether he was drug free or not or if he and his girlfriend were together for sure. This movie was not something I would probably watch again.

Role of Women

                The way women were treated, not only in Germany, but all around the world has been an ongoing battle that still goes on today. Sexism still exists whether we choose to acknowledge it or not. Women are still paid less in the work place and are still though as of weaker and not properly educated. In the earlier centuries women were viewed as purely home makers. Their main responsibilities were the three K’s: Kirche, Kinder and kuche, these meaning churches, children and kitchen. In West Germany women were the minority. They had men to do the hard work so they can take care of the children and house. They were not even considered part of society. Two third of women were unemployed and some that could work worked in factories and with the war effort. Most women worked during the war to help fill the spots of job that men would normally fill while the men were at war. By the end of 20^th century there were 700,000 working women. East Germany had a soviet style of government and in the 20^th century some women were able to receive an education. Mothers were working and abortion became legal and free choices were beginning to be granted for women. German’s Organization for women was found in 1894 and they fought for equal rights and social conditions such as education to women. After a long fighting battle, 1919 was when women were granted the right to vote.  Women started making progress in getting rights that men had but as we can see today it is still a struggle. It was very interesting for me to see how men were treated and how some of these still go on today. I know personally I am not a woman to be tied down and kept in a kitchen to raise kids by myself. I like to be a working women and not relying on men for everything