Jeans, disco, rock music-the characteristics of young people in Western society in the 1980s. It is also in this group of young people that what they have is madness and despair, but what they lack is care and hope. There is a sense of alienation that has nothing to do with people in modern cities, so that the teenagers want to avoid it as far as possible before entering the society.
On September 28, 1978, an article was published in the German "Star" magazine. Kristiana F suddenly became a familiar name to thousands of people, and about 20 million people read this article. The true report, it wrote the voice of a girl, she told people her personal experience: she started taking drugs at the age of 13 and embarked on the road of prostitution at the age of 14. This living fact shook the hearts of Germans. Based on this article and the recorded speeches of two drug addicts, the film "Confessions of a Young Girl" was compiled and adapted. The original title of the film is "Kristiana F-Our Children from the Zoo Train Station" (Zoo Train Station is the main train station in the west of Berlin). This film presents another world in the Federal Republic of Germany in a new way-the world of the younger generation. They did not become like this because of drug abuse. Their degeneration was due to problems brought to them by society: their parents were divorced, and young people lacked the warmth and care of the family since childhood, and therefore lost hope and confidence in the future. They live in a desperate situation, with eye-catching and stimulating advertisements, discotheques that make people vent everything, and drugs that are exciting and quickly addictive... make a group of teenagers fall into drug use, prostitution, The road to suicide.
The heroine of the film, Christina F, is only 13 years old, but her parents are divorced, and the only sister in the family who can talk to her also left her. In addition to work, the mother has a boyfriend and cares about her daughter unintentionally. Kristiana had no warmth at home. Under the leadership of her girlfriend Casey, she was exposed to drugs when she stepped into the disco for the first time. Although she was curious, she did not accept it. When I got home, my mother was still with her boyfriend. She was bored and had to go to the young man she met in the dance hall. She told them that she was tired and wanted to sleep, but the young man said, "People do not sleep until they die!" Running in the station, rolling on the ground, smashing shop windows to grab money, and then ran to the highest roof of the European Center yelling, yelling at the police...especially when the girl met a young man named Detlev immediately sprouted It means admiration, but the young man is not enthusiastic about her. When she gave the young man a birthday cake after her 14th birthday, he was with others. She gave Detlef the money her mother had bought herself for her birthday, but the boy immediately used it to buy drugs. The girl was surprised at first, and finally wanted to try it herself. When she was just 14 years old, she tasted the taste of drugs for the first time. Boyfriend Detlef relies on homosexuality to make money to buy drugs. The girl has to sell her body to take drugs. The girl's innocent and pure heart is destroyed.
When talking about the film, the director Edel said: "I focus on describing women. They are empty and have no pursuit of the future. They no longer feel that self is important. Because many teenagers in the 1980s felt that way." So the director The film focuses on Kristiana. When she entered the disco for the first time and was touched by a man for the first time, she was just at a loss. After meeting Detlef, she took the initiative to go home with him and sleep with him, but She didn't realize the importance of self, she was less than 14 years old at that time! In order to take drugs, I had to prostitution, having sex with people in the car, and robbing other women on the street... There are also two young girls described in the film, one is Kristiana’s girlfriend, Kathy, who has long been there. To make a boyfriend, she took Kristiana into a disco, she secretly exchanged drugs with others, and she fooled around outside all night. Even the sister who is younger than Kristiana was hanging out and smoking in the street, saying to her sister: "It's better to live boringly or die." This is what the director described as a teenager in the 1980s. It is the spiritual world of children. They have to fight for their own survival in today’s society, and they are too young without the guidance of adults. In this too free world, they are at a loss and cannot help themselves. The path of despair. In order to reflect the drug problem in today's society and understand the reasons why young people take drugs, the director has been in contact with many drug users. And in order to better express this style, he used handheld cameras throughout the film and processed it in a cool tone. The young actors in the film are all non-professionals, but their performances are very realistic, and they better represent the degenerate drug addicts in life.
Many shots in the film are unsightly. The children gathered in the zoo train station in the center of Berlin, hiding in the toilet and cutting blood vessels, taking needles into the veins; taking drugs again and again, one after another with decadent and painful faces; young people were crazy when listening to rock music The flashing lights in the discotheque, the ear-splitting music, the boys and girls trying to forget everything and twisting their bodies vigorously; drinking, smoking, taking drugs, prostitution; their numb expressions, traumatized hearts, have made the young The innocence and loveliness is completely lost...In addition to the realistic performance of non-professional actors, the dialogue compiled based on Heilman and Rick's recordings adds a real and natural effect.
Of course, the most shocking thing about the film is the ideological content. It does not evade the conflicts between beauty and ugliness, good and evil in external life and internal life, and does not whitewash the reality. This is why this film made a sensation in the entire German society and created the highest record for German film audiences that year. Sex and violence, drug abuse and prostitution are serious problems that plague contemporary Western society, and have become the themes of many artists' creations. The problem of juvenile drug abuse is particularly worrying. Many married couples are reluctant to have children in order to avoid this problem, so as not to burden themselves with the heavy burden of children. Some parents have tried their best to save their children after discovering that they have taken drugs, but the result is still in vain. There are many people who have taken the road to crime due to drug use.
The real Kristiana, 19 years old in 1981, works in a bookstore in Berlin. She lives with six friends, and her lover is Alexander, who is slightly younger than her. She has now become the idol of German teenagers, but in the past three years she has given up drug addiction, because her five friends all died from drug use. She has given up drugs several times but can't stand the temptation. In the end, her friend died. Made her determined to abstain from drugs.
Director Ulrich Edel, born April 11, 1947, graduated from the Munich Film and Television Academy in 1973. He started filming the movie "Little Warrior" in 1970 and "Tommy's Return" in 1972. After that, he is good at making TV films and series. "Confessions of a Girl" is his debut feature film in the theater. This film was voted the most sensational and best-selling film on the film market of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1981.
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