Especially these days when you go to any party where well to do career people get together and within twenty minutes someone invites you to snort a line? Heroin is the last hush hush drug left in our culture. Maybe its best left out of peoples thoughts. Remember people do not shock as easily as they did back then. I know my kids will not be allowed to watch this.
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I don't think this movie romanticises drug use, except in one very important way.
Christiane and Detlev are played by very good looking actors. In particular, Detlev is clearly the most handsome boy amongst the cast, and he has a shy manner that a lot of young girls would find very attractive. The first time Christiane and Detlev share a bed, both of them look incredibly beautiful. A lot of young kids would LOVE to have friends or girlfriends/boyfriends who look as good as these two, so it could be confusing to separate the fact that using drugs does not make you look like these two gorgeous tragic characters.
By comparison, if the only kids in the movie using drugs looked like the background kids in the Bahnhof Zoo station, then the association to drug use would not be so "glamorous".
There is the same problem (but worse) in Trainspotting. I was a teenager when that movie came out, and every girl in school wanted a boyfriend who looked like Renton or Sick Boy.
A real messed-up junkie on the street is always MUCH more off-putting than healthy good-looking actors with black circles drawn under their eyes.
But Christiane F is still a great movie, and very realistic in its portrayal.
Well to be fair Detlef actually was pretty good looking in real life and Christiane was gorgeous (she still looks good today), probably better looking than the actress in the movie. But I mean they're both little kids so it would be kind of gross for teenagers or adults to be attracted to either of them...
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This should be shown in schools across America. It is by far the most brutally honest depiction of heroin addiction I've ever seen. I don't think that puking all over your boyfriend, who sells his body to the highest bidder, is very romantic. The withdrawal scene in their bedroom is one of the most graphic visuals and will stick with me forever.
The beauty is I'm learning how to face my beast ~ Blue October
Exept if you think than having to mastrubate paedo to get your fix and vomititing on your boyfriend is romantic, no.
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I don't think this movie is exactly romanticizing drugs. I mean, it does have some romantic (relationship) aspects to it, but romance definitely isn't the point of this movie. This movie shows how drugs can destroy lives. In the end, the romance obviously didn't work. All the characters came to the same demise. They all became junkies. There's nothing even slightly romantic about being a junkie.
sharethere are two people that are against drugs in general:
1. people who don't know shit about drugs
2. people who suck at doing drugs
Compared to modern stuff like Euphoria, this doesn't romanticize it at all. The only way I could see someone seeing it like that is because CF and her boyfriend are beautiful, but besides that it's one of the best showings of the harsh reality.
shareYes. Any notion in this film that heroin addiction is a romantic lifestyle has already gone straight out the window by the time we enter that squalid two-room flophouse and see the curly haired kid squirting blood from his syringe onto the filthy newspapers on the floor. It doesn't treat it like a big comical adventure the way Trainspotting did.
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