ed miliband
27th December 2011, 17:00
Or 'Christiane F.' to give it it's English title.
RVYDG2oSdlY
It's about Christiane, a bored and alienated 13 year old girl growing up in a grim tower block in Neukolln, and her slow descent into the horrors of opiate addiction. Except it's much better than I make it sound. I've never been so deeply affected by a film - I sobbed like a baby at the end, couldn't sleep afterwards and am tearing up thinking about it now. I spoke to my uncle about it and he said he only watched it once as a teen (he's in his late 30s now) and it has never left him, and I feel I'll be the same.
I mean, it's weird - it's obviously an anti-drugs film, and as grim as anti-drugs films can come (and it's realistic with it, not like that pile-of-shit 'Requiem for a Dream') but there's also something strangely romantic in it. Or maybe that's 'cos I'm a melancholy bugger.
And to think I only watched it because I'm a Berlinophile...
RVYDG2oSdlY
It's about Christiane, a bored and alienated 13 year old girl growing up in a grim tower block in Neukolln, and her slow descent into the horrors of opiate addiction. Except it's much better than I make it sound. I've never been so deeply affected by a film - I sobbed like a baby at the end, couldn't sleep afterwards and am tearing up thinking about it now. I spoke to my uncle about it and he said he only watched it once as a teen (he's in his late 30s now) and it has never left him, and I feel I'll be the same.
I mean, it's weird - it's obviously an anti-drugs film, and as grim as anti-drugs films can come (and it's realistic with it, not like that pile-of-shit 'Requiem for a Dream') but there's also something strangely romantic in it. Or maybe that's 'cos I'm a melancholy bugger.
And to think I only watched it because I'm a Berlinophile...