1. What do drugs mean to Ickarus?
-Drugs to Ickarus is a way for him to be free from all the
struggle and frustration he has from making a new album and preforming all the
time. It is his way just to forget it all and relax. But he is just starting to
realize that he is using them too much.
2. Why, when, and how are his fans taking drugs, and which
drugs do they take?
- Ickarus fans take drugs during his concerts because it
makes them hallucinate and feel more into the music. They are taking pills by
mouth that are seeming to be a strong ecstasy, or molly.
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 belongs to focus on drugs?
-I believe that the subculture Ickarus is surrounded by is
taking drugs because it has became the norm to everyone in it. I am sure at
first when people started to take the drug many people thought it was scary.
Throughout time as more and more people started to do it, others started too as
well. They saw as it appeared to them that the people taking the drugs were
having fun and were relaxed so most people started to tag along in the fun.
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?
-Obviously as we have been taking about in class throughout the
weeks is sexuality. The German culture is much more open about the naked body
and sexual behaviors than we are here in the States. For example the sense
where Ickarus’ girlfriend see a couple having sex in the public bathroom it
does not disturb her as much as it would with someone in America. Same when she
kisses her friend more straight girls who are sober at least in the U.S.A. do not
just kiss their friends like that as she did.
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 could not exactly say that the youth culture could change
German out of an industrial nation because we are only looking at a small group
of youth in the movie. As well as in Germany there are also kids on America and
around the world who act the same as the young adults are in the movie. That
den’t mean that everyone I on that same path of drugs. Now for the work ethics
of Ickarus and of Alice, there are always people who are like them who know how
to work but also want to take their time with it and have fun.
6. Which similar "cult movies" of US origin have
you seen, if any?
-I am sorry to say but I do not recall watching or
remembering watching another “cult movie” before this one.
Reaction
I am finding this film very interesting as we watch it. I
have never seen a movie like this one and am intrigued by it. I am liking how
real it is by showing how life as Ickarus really is. I do not go to many
concerts so seeing how the life style of the fans and artist of dubstep live is
very cool. Although I have had friends who have gone to concert like this in America
and this is what they described them as. As saying that I cannot compare to the
same type of culture are in the movie I can say what I think about what differs
from living here and there in the same way. In America I would believe, as I
said before, that the openness of nudity and sexuality is much different. Also,
the drugs I would assume are different. Know
that people do drugs all around the world but comparing to where I live and
Germany I think drugs are more open to them than they are here. In the movie
people are just handing out drugs now really caring who sees, In the States I
know that people are more secretive about drugs. Yes they use them but they don’t
go around having them in them in their hand and selling them to whoever like
they do in the movie.
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