ABOUT LIFE, ABOUT ART (&the rest)

Yesterday I watched the film "Vielleicht lieber morgen/Perks of being a wallflower" and it was really , really awesome. I sometimes have the special situation that I cry by laughing while I'm watching a film because it's sad and lovely at the same time. Especially when I watch movies of Tim Burton. But this one wasn't from him. I don't know who created it.
It's about a boy who's going to highschool after a long time. He had a break because his best friend shot himself. I'm not quite sure, but I think he had some blackouts. He's very shy and closed, but after a while he finds two friends: Patrick and his sister Sam. They're showing him the good sides of the life, but at the same time he remembers things his brain faded out. These memories burden him as well as the fact that Sam doesn't reply his love.
I also mentionned movies from Tim Burton. I love those animated stuff like 'A Nightmare Before Christmas" , this one's so lovely and cute.



But I also adore the typical ones like "Sweeney Todd" or "Dark Shadows" with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. Dark Shadow is more a funny one, but I prefer his melancholic works, those which are enchanting and playing some time ago.


(Sweeney Todd: Johnny Depp and the adorable Helena Bonham Carter)

Tim Burton's films often are very dark and for some people also scary. Themes are most of the dead or the life after it. But his films aren't that brutal, they're more built on the feelings of the characters. I love them because I find that they're pure creativity. It's a beautiful imagination to create an own story, to invent characters and places full of magic.

At least I want to present a movie which is German. It's called "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo/ We children from Bahnhof Zoo"... It's maybe one of the most famous movies of Germany, but I don't know what that means... I don't think everyone knows it.
the storie's about Christiane F. , starting to take drugs with 14. She was fascinated by a class mate who was such a grown up one, so she started to go partying with her. At a club she met a guy called Detleff. His friends became her friends. They were all taking stuff like heroin and cocain, so she took it too, just because she didn't want to be an outsider.
She consumes more and more, and has to hustle for money at the train station "Bahnhof Zoo", a place of drug trade and prostitution. Two of her friends die, they had the "Golden shot" (I don't know if it's the same expression like in German), one of them as the "youngest drug victim of Berlin" with 14 years.
At the time she realizes that the heroin destroys her, she's going through cold turkey lots of times.
The film has a happy ending even Christiane F.'s still addicted to drugs with round 40 years old now. Today she ithinks that people from television are following and controlling her because of the book she wrote and the movie. She became insane somehow because of the drug consume. It's a sad story.


We children from Bahnhof Zoo

Nevertheless I wanted to write more about a song which is the soundtrack of the film. It's David Bowie's song "Heroes". I mention it because it's also an important song in the movie "Perks of being a wallflower" and yesterday I realized how beautiful it is. In the movie "We children from Bahnhof Zoo" it's more a negative, no, melancholic song. But in "Perks of being a wallflower" it sounds very positive and I liked it so much.
The following is a Trailer of "We children from bahnhof Zoo" , containing the song: