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Conclusion

I feel that it is appropriate to conclude my exploration of the ways in which David Bowie ' s " Berlin Trilogy " illustrates the social and political landscape of a divided Berlin by addressing the ways in which the influence of the trilogy impacts the world around it . Bowie ' s influence was genre-defying and spread far and wide . I feel that his work in Berlin was perhaps the most influential in the context under which it was produced . Bowie took a very simplistic , stripped back approach to his lifestyle in order to create something extra-ordinary creatively .
An example of Bowie ’ s seminal influence that really stands out to me is Uli Edel ’ s 1981 film Christiane F . Wir Sind Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo which highlights a lot of the issues present within West Berlin during the 1970 ’ s . its particular focus is upon how this generation has been abandoned by the state and draws attention to the drug problem present in 1970 ’ s Berlin . The