Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

Anyone here see "Christiane F."? Was it any good?

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread
This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » The DU Lounge Donate to DU
 
Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-22-09 08:56 PM
Original message
Anyone here see "Christiane F."? Was it any good?
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
EndersDame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-22-09 09:14 PM
Response to Original message
1. I have never seen it ,but have the sound track which totally kickass!
Edited on Mon Jun-22-09 09:14 PM by EndersDame
I have it on vinyl not trying to earn any hipster points here, just think that most of Bowie's Berlin/Eno era music sounds better on vinyl. Some how it manages to accentuate the warm and fuzzy sonic layers
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-22-09 09:17 PM
Response to Original message
2. My friends went to see it when I was a teen. They said it was sad.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-22-09 11:52 PM
Response to Original message
3. Yes, good. Subtitled version far superior to dubbed version.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
EndersDame Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-23-09 12:16 AM
Response to Reply #3
4. Were did you find that? I have been looking for one
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-23-09 07:05 AM
Response to Reply #4
5. Sorry, I saw it in its original theatrical run way back when.
If I find one, I'll shoot up a flare.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
MikeH Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-23-09 06:43 PM
Response to Original message
6. Alice Miller has a chapter about Christiane F. in one of her books
The Swiss writer and psychotherapist Alice Miller, in her now online book http://www.nospank.net/fyog.htm">For Your Own Good, has http://www.nospank.net/fyog11.htm#drugs">a chapter about Christiane F. (along with a chapter about Hitler and a chapter about a child molester and murderer).

Each case she presents as an example of how severe abuse and mistreatment in childhood has led the person to be either self-destructive or destructive toward others.

The phrase "For Your Own Good" was one my father very often used. I had a very difficult father, who did some very good things but who also at times bordered on being emotionally and psychologically abusive, most especially so when he decided in Godlike fashion that I needed to be talked to or treated in a certain way "for my own good", sometimes when I made an honest mistake, honestly forgot something, or something was not according to his standards. I saw Alice Miller's book For Your Own Good in a bookstore and bought it in the late 1980's, a couple of years after my dad had died; I found her perspective to be very eye-opening, enlightening, and ultimately helpful to me.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-23-09 07:24 PM
Response to Original message
7. My mom made me watch it when I was a kid.
Not that I was ever headed toward heroin but it served as a reinforcement against it. It was ok.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
bikebloke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-23-09 07:44 PM
Response to Original message
8. Thanks for the reminder
I heard about it during my wanderings around Europe in the early 80's, but never saw it. Netflix has it, and I just added it to my queue.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view 
this author's profile Click to add 
this author to your buddy list Click to add 
this author to your Ignore list Wed May 08th 2024, 08:41 AM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » The DU Lounge Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators


Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC