absurdity and metaphor

Kole 2022-04-21 09:03:46

"The grandmother's four large skirts represent the symbols of the four nationalities.

Fish, geese, and kale represent the economy. Potatoes are land.

In fact, the people in this film are not real "people", they represent different national cultures.

For example, Oscar represents the Nazis, his father represents the German-Italian system, and his uncle represents Poland. Pay attention to the changes before and after, that is, the place in Danze is affected by wars and so on.

Oscar challenged the law of superiority and inferiority, challenged human civilization, challenged science, and finally challenged theocracy (hanging the drum on the statue), and succeeded every time. "

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  • Lon 2022-03-26 09:01:14

    Joking, absurd, magical, Schlondorf denounced the sins of the Nazis, denounced lascivious mothers, cowardly fathers, denounced all evil in the world, and finally abandoned memory to gain a new life, but I think in the heaven we forget too quickly .

  • Letha 2022-03-28 09:01:13

    Very depressing no-nonsense film. Almost all the elements of a horror movie: expressionless children with more whites than eyeballs, dwarfs, clowns, screams, inexplicable deaths

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.