WOW... just wow.
My mother always told me to watch this movie. It was a movie she watched when she was around my age and she loves this movie. Today I decided to watch it.
It's about Christiane, a 13 year old girl in the 70s that started doing drugs because of a boy and ends up getting addicted to heroin. She ends up giving handjobs and blowjobs to ensure she and her boyfriend Detlev can get the H.
It's all about doing drugs and how bad it is and this movie succeeded better than anything I've ever seen before. It made me feel sick, but that was of course the plan.
I never did drugs and I think it's really stupid to do those hard drugs like heroin. But this movie really succeeded in making me not ever want to try it. The line "A shocking film" at the top of the poster is so true.
We don't see anything good happen because of the drugs. Usually if you get a movie about drugs you see the effects the drugs have, maybe seeing the whole world in color or being happy. Here we see just people being disappointed in what the drugs did and them being so full of drugs that they walk around like zombies. They take the drugs because of peer pressure, because they are alone and everyone does it. And even though everyone Christiane is with sais she shouldn't take the Heroin she still does it.
This movie is also talking about many topics that are still taboo in movies to this day. Barely do we see a 15 year old boy telling us how he is giving gay guys handjobs and blowjobs for money. Here we even get to see a sex scene.
It's a german movie based on a german book based on real events, the real Christiane was even at the set as a consultant. That only makes it more shocking, because you know this really happened.
I could make this whole review a tirade about how doing drugs sucks but the movie does that pretty well so I'm now gonna talk about the technical stuff.
The music is almost entirely by David Bowie, who even makes an appearance as himself. I think the soundtrack isn't bad, and since in reality she was a fan of David Bowie this is only fitting.
It is shot really well, especially for a movie shot in Germany in the 1980s.
The acting isn't great most of the time, but some scenes (the withdrawal scene in particular is shockingly good) are really effective and acted surprisingly good.
One minor problem is that this movie is dubbed (at least it seemed like it), but it's not a big deal.
All in all I'm giving this movie 5 out of 5 stars. Everyone should watch it. I think this movie should be shown mandatory in every school year just to remind the students how bad drugs are.
But okay, I'm done with the rants now, please watch this movie. It won't make you happy, but it could change your life.
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