Report for Berlin Calling

1. What do drugs mean to Ickarus?

Ickarus was a good electronic musician. In recently years, record companies were not interested on his new works, he felt depression. He chose drugs to help him to relax and look for inspiration.

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

Some of his fans just take drugs for fun, they want drugs to help them to enjoy the music. They took cocaine and ingest pills. They took the drugs in club or around some music events.

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 is in focus on drugs?

Ickarus may make a wrong view, he didn’t understand how bed effects the drugs will make. He was a young man, sometimes he cannot face the pressure in a right way. He use drugs to help him to escape problems.

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?

I haven’t seen any people like Ickarus. I have seen lots of young people, they like go to club or pub and drunk. When they play in pub, they will forget the things they need to face.

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?

I think it probably will change that.

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

I didn’t watch this kind of movie in US. But I watch some similar movie in China as Struggle.

This movie discussed the inspiration. The creation need inspiration, where is the inspiration. Ickarus’ inspiration comes from the vision of drugs that create, actually finally he found his inspiration was given by his real life. When he saw his girlfriend was still love him, although she lived with other girl. When he saw the people and things in the psychiatric hospital, his inspiration was coming.

“Berlin calling”, the call may be exactly what world give us the attention of. Music now has a new media - computers. Anything you want to note, you all can show through the computer. Music is really important for Ickarus, it’s reflected in his creation or when he was in the bottleneck. If music has sons, Ickarus will be one of them. When I was in China, I have found there are few people like Ickarus. They didn’t use drugs, but they also like to find some crazy way to relax and to release the pressure. Someone like go to pub, they drunk and dance. At time they feel really relax and have fun. Most of them found it was not a good choose to live in one day. All of them will try to find their inspiration in their real life.