Too much of everything

One of my all time favorites.

Don't listen to the negative reviews

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

I saw it for the first time randomly when I was 13 years old, but not all of it. I would search for it with a lot of names( I saw it on Italian) but could not find it...After a lot of research I found the movie and was so happy to see it again..There is something so strange about this movie. It takes you with it. You get inside the movie and feel everything..After you watch it once you will never forget it... Everything seems so true for Berlin. Actually it is because a lot of things are for real, some videos for example. They say it has a lot in common with Albania, the capital Tirana at years 1996..The explanation about drugs is so true..It is based on a true story, the book actually with the same name.

Christiane F. is a movie that really catches the kind of melancholic and sad atmosphere of run-down suburbs and of its dwellers. The scenes are sometimes crude when, for example, Christiane and her boyfriend Detlef, in the attempt of getting clean from drugs, spend an entire night suffering for their effort not to do heroin: they sweat, they curse, they drink and then they vomit. Therefore the scenes are realistic, direct and truly engaging. The daily life of 14 years-old kids sadly rolls out with prostitution to buy drugs and doing drugs. But the saddest thing is that this vicious circle seems far from ending, as the drug-addicted youngsters seem to be too weak to overcome their addiction that will inevitably lead to death for some of them.

First of all, the film is striking in its atmosphere. Berlin 70s. Street children, drug addicts, eager doses to live another day without the pains of hell from breaking.On the one hand this is a common everyday life story girl (boy) who threw his father, and therefore have a bad relationship with his mother, who still somehow trying to live, finding a man. Christine appear secrets she kept lying to the mother, that she sometimes does not notice.When watching the film he reminds "Requiem for a Dream." Although he leaves a horrible experience. At the sight of creepy moments, such as when Christine, a 14-year-old girl for the first time taking a dose, has sex, as she slowly becomes a prostitute, while denying it, since it does not want to consider themselves such. When she first tried heroin, inhaling it, she liked it, it was a real thrill then. But when she decided to try it intravenously, it could be only one - beginning of the end.Time passed, the dose needed to live on. Around dying people familiar to her people. It seems that their death will affect about it, but, alas, it did not. Only after her Babsi drugs radically changed, and she decided to get out of this slavery, even though at times it is difficult.Still amazed when she and "her boyfriend" tried to quit. They seemed very strong mentally. Hold out for several days, and it is a very long and painful day. I can not even imagine what they went through during this time! Although everything was then wasted. Like realizing that they can easily quit at any time, they decided to start again this servitude.In general, despite causing a picture in my head to keep a few words that embody the film. Freedom, violence, and degradation of the individual. That is what showed me the film. In general it can be seen from the very first minutes of viewing. Regarding freedom. I can not understand where her mother, where she looked. Whether it is strongly attracted to each other and their problems, whether she did not care for her daughter. Although the first with the second tally.Cruelty - it appears in dependence. The person becomes aggressive. And this is what gives rise to even more worst qualities in a man. Take even the guy who "her first time" gave his gun, and then, like a hungry animal, wild dog, broke away from the syringe in order to satisfy their vice. Frightened, grabbed the syringe after seen, rinse it in the toilet! It's so down to do not care for anything. Heroin - a kind of "cure" with side effects, namely the degradation of the individual.One of the best films on the topic of child abuse, which can be safely recommended to those who are hooked on "Requiem for a Dream." This is sort of a classic of the genre.

"Christiane F." is one of the first mainstream movies about heroin addicts, and perhaps the first about very young ones. Supposedly the film was quite shocking because of the age of the characters (and actors) as well as the graphic drug use scenes. We meet Christiane F. when she is 12 and already getting into hallucinogenic drugs. Her friends are all interested in heroin and she starts is deeply addicted and prostituting herself by age 14, as is her best friend Babsi, and her boyfriend Detlev.With the characters rapidly deteriorating before your eyes and stooping ever lower to get their "dough", this is definitely a downer of a movie, as I guess all heroin movies are, but given the ages of the characters and the stark setting of Berlin at the height of the cold war, this one is especially bleak save for a few brief moments of teenage bliss before they are all addicted to heroin, and David Bowie's performance (Bowie composed the soundtrack and performs a song, his name attached to the project quite possibly helped it be made and contributed considerably to its success).Made in 1981, "Christiane F." clearly paved the way for "Trainspotting", but really can't match it in terms of stylized drug use scenes and really exciting scenes set to perfectly chosen pop music, despite Bowie's role in the production. Actually this movie makes "Trainspotting" look downright cheerful. It is incredibly bleak and parts are quite difficult to watch, but that is due to its emotional power. Feel-good movie this isn't, but it's absolutely worth watching. Just don't expect it to leave you in a good mood.