dark adult fairy tale

Dillon 2022-04-21 09:03:46

From the beginning of the story, we get Oscar's perspective and begin to see this sad and changing world from his perspective. The stealing of the mother and the cousin, the use of the child's body to have sex with young women, the changing views of relatives on politics, the complex historical background and Oscar's inner thoughts gradually changed the bright tone of the film in the early stage and became dim. Broken, will destroy the beautiful.

Are you saying that Oscar is mentally ill? I don't think so, he acts like a child with what he thinks is an adult's idea. In normal circumstances, they all reveal the weirdness and make the audience feel that these practices are absurd and incomprehensible, and this eventually leads to despair. Oscar's stunts in the film, the sharp, knife-like screams are disturbing and depressing.

The human nature and war in the film are interspersed countlessly in the film, which is bizarre and depressing.

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The Tin Drum quotes

  • Bebra: You must join us, you must!

    Oskar Matzerath: You know, Mr. Bebra... to tell the truth, I prefer to be a member of the audience, and let my little art flower in secret.

    Bebra: My dear Oskar, trust an experienced colleague. Our kind must never sit in the audience. Our kind must perform and run the show, or the others will run *us*. The others are coming. They will occupy the fairgrounds, they will stage torchlight parades, build rostrums, fill the rostrums, and from those rostrums preach our destruction.

  • Oskar Matzerath: There once was a drummer. His name was Oskar. He lost his poor mama, who had eat to much fish. There was once a credulous people... who believed in Santa Claus. But Santa Claus was really... the gas man! There was once a toy merchant. His name was Sigismund Markus... and he sold tin drums lacquered red and white. There was once a drummer. His name was Oskar. There was once a toy merchant... whose name was Markus... and he took all the toys in the world away with him.