Reaction to Berlin Calling

The movie Berlin Calling deals with the youth of Germany and their actions. Ickarus, who is the main character, takes many drugs on a daily basis. The reason for this is because he claims the drugs make his life better, but in reality that’s what almost destroys his singing career. As the movie goes on he makes many poor decisions. Although he makes many bad decisions it does not faze him as he continues to use drugs.

Ickarus is not the only one using drugs in the movie. It seems as though many of the youth throughout the movie are taking many different forms of drugs. They are able to find these drugs at most night clubs. A couple of the scenes show the kids doing the drugs in the bathrooms. From an outsider looking in it looks as though taking drugs is the cool or in thing to do. The sense of power over their own bodies draws many of the youth into using these destructive drugs.

This life would be very awful for me. I was raised up very sheltered. My high school class was relatively small so everyone knew everything about each other and no one dared to try drugs. However, now that I am in college I see drug use happening all the time. I think as time goes on drug use will continue to rise, especially the use of Marijuana due to the fact that some states have made it legal to smoke.

Questions:

1. For Ickarus drugs are something that just make his life more exciting and deal with his  struggles in life.
2. The fans are seen taking drugs in the bathrooms. The drugs are sold at the clubs. The drugs they take are cocaine and ecstasy.
3. They focus on drugs because that is what they think life is all about.  Ickarus continues to take the drugs because he likes the pleasure the drugs give him.
4. It is completely night and day when comparing where I grew up compared to the movie. Very few if any people in my small high school did drugs. With that being said I would never seen drugs being sold in a bathroom or anything of that sort.
5. From the way the movie depicts the youth in the movie it does not look like they are a strong industrial nation. However, looks can be deceiving. Germany is indeed a very industrial nation.
6.  One of the more recent movies that I have seen that I think can somewhat relate to this is Project X. In this movie many kids are pure pressured into drinking alcohol and doing drugs.

Expanding on Health Topic

Here few things that I will take away from learning about the health in Germany:

-Germany made many new discoveries in the earlier years
Example: William Harvey discovered blood circulation. He did this by sticking himself with different needles and then studying his body's blood circulation.

-I found that it was quite ironic that Germany adopted universal health care so long ago and here in America we are still in the process of getting universal health care.

-In the 20th century there were a lot of discoveries, but most of them were bad discoveries.
Bad Example: The Nazi's "tested" drugs on the Jews. However, this testing really wasn't testing because it killed the Jews. The Nazi's also created a drug similar to cocaine. This drug was then given to the soldiers that were fighting. Another example of Germany's medical advancement in the 20th century would have to be their discovery of steroids. It is said that just about all Germans that won medals in the Olympics were on steroids. (eleven out of 13 medals were won by Germans) Back in the day this might have been acceptable, but today it is not. A prime example of this is Lance Armstrong who recently got stripped of all his Tour De France wins.


Good Example: Most of the discoveries in the 20th century were bad, but not all of them. An example of this was the discovery of Bayer in 1863. Bayer is still sold today which means this was a great discovery.