For my independent project, I watched the movie Teenage Wolfpack by George Terssler. This movie is focusing on the teenage rebellion in West Germany during the late 50s. Tressler wants to take a closer look at these teenagers and see why they’re doing all these malicious acts, what’s causing it, and also how much American culture is responsible for these behaviors. Also, this movie has a lot in common with the East Germany movie, Berlin-Ecke Schonhauser and the American movie, The Wild One. The movie starts with this message “The world reflects itself most vividly in its youth. Today, to say the least, the world is restless, and the restlessness of its young people is a universal problem.” This statement is talking about the fact that teenage rebellion is not the
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He wants to bring some sense to them and make them realize that with doing these stuffs they’re just going to get themselves into trouble and just destroy their future. But we do not have such a figure in the Teenage Wolfpack. None of the adults is supporting them, and the only person that is trying to be a little bit nicer is Jan and Freddie’s mom, but because of the fact that she is a woman and also because of the fact that they’re in trouble because of her brother, she doesn’t really have a say and so most of the time, their father shuts her down.
The fact that there’s no father like figure in The Teenage Wolfpack, as Heiduschke describe it “the lack of paternal authority outside of the home thus hints at a more general problem: the streets of West Germany as lawless space, controlled by teenagers instead of adults.” These kids run away to streets from their home, because they want to be free, they want to feel like adults and since their parents are still treating them like kids, they want to escape that
He wants to bring some sense to them and make them realize that with doing these stuffs they’re just going to get themselves into trouble and just destroy their future. But we do not have such a figure in the Teenage Wolfpack. None of the adults is supporting them, and the only person that is trying to be a little bit nicer is Jan and Freddie’s mom, but because of the fact that she is a woman and also because of the fact that they’re in trouble because of her brother, she doesn’t really have a say and so most of the time, their father shuts her down.
The fact that there’s no father like figure in The Teenage Wolfpack, as Heiduschke describe it “the lack of paternal authority outside of the home thus hints at a more general problem: the streets of West Germany as lawless space, controlled by teenagers instead of adults.” These kids run away to streets from their home, because they want to be free, they want to feel like adults and since their parents are still treating them like kids, they want to escape that