anyone re-watched this


I think I'm going to have to revisit this film at some point in future. Did you feel any different after another watch?

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I rewatched yesterday after ..I don't know maybe 25 and was hooked .This movie was one of the reasons that hold me to go down this road.
I am German so this whole package with the town and everything was really familiar to me and I could relate on Christiane.
I wanted my kids to see how drug use really looks like.

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Yes, I watched it as a young underage kid studying German. It evoked shock but never affected me to try drugs. Perhaps it had a counter-effect.
It seemed gruesome at times, in particular the teenage prostitution.
I do recall appreciating David Bowie even more after the film, and I purchased his 70s hits.

Two decades later, when I watched it again, I was desensitised to some extent.
I read recently that the director wanted to capture the realism of the environment at the Zoo-Banhof, that many of the extras in the scenes were actual street kids who worked as prostitutes to support their drug addiction.

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