Hit and Run

Everybody loves to be a VIP. Honestly, Im kinda a sucker for the "invite only" stuff. Add to that random occurrance, careful planning and some under ground "Berlin style" and you've got a little thing called Hit and Run Kino. This well scouted movie night that happens randomly throughout the year is created by a couple of psuedo famous ex club promoters. They choose a movie to screen and a very appropriate location in which to screen it. They then send out an email to a select few (theres that invite only thing) with a place to meet, a date and time. You meet there, pay 5 euros and are walked through the streets of Berlin like some kind of Pide Piper pub crawl to the "secret location" for movie viewing.

When we met at first, I was excited. Then after wandering on foot with this group for about 15 minutes, I thought - Ok, what the heck is this? I knew that the cost also included drinks and I kept thinking- there is no way Im drinking the Cool Aid!

We finally get to the location, its a school called Rutli which is known for having some of the most unruly students in Berlin. We walk across the campus into this abandoned old warehouse. Its dark and we are literally climbing through holes in the wall, one by one, to get from room to room. There are tables with beer and wine where we helped ourself to drinks (made sure to cork my own ;-) and then we wandered into another part and found some seats. The movie for the screening is a little flick called Class of 1984 and fortunately for me, it was in english.

Watching a movie about the worst school in America (at that time) inside the grounds of the worst school in Berlin (at this time), I realized some things never change. And while we do live worlds apart, different languages, customs, perspectives-good and bad are understood widely. As I cheered with the crowd at the end when the protagonist triumphed, I realized we aren't that different. Gotta love a little hit and run!