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We will discuss the handout and view and discuss the 100 minute film. Bring your glasses - the film is subtitled.
The questions you need to answer while viewing:
1. What do drugs mean to Ickarus?
2. Why, when, and how are his fans taking drugs, and which drugs do they take?
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?
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?
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?
6. Which similar "cult movies" of US origin have you seen, if any?
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The report you need to write and post by next week Wednesday, noon needs to contain:
- written answers to the questions above,
- and write your personal reaction to the film. Point out cultural differences that "jumped" at you, behaviors that you would not have seen or expected in the US, and summarize your viewing experience.
That post will be not less than 300 words, excluding answers.
P.S. We will be viewing three movies this semester. These three, as different as they may appear, have a few common threads and themes: the individual person making choices or being culturally indoctrinated to follow a certain path - or fight that path (last movie: The Baader-Meinhof Complex) and the human experiences made between living life to its fullest, and death. Germans are more critical and more outspoken than Americans about what they think, like, dislike, and care for. View the films with an eye toward such differences in habit and cultural expression.
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