The Tin Drum, an anti-Nazi film born during World War II, describes the small town of Danzig between Germany and Poland from the perspective of a child. Exaggerated, absurd, obscure, dark, full of image projections and political metaphors, it is best to add the label of "horror". Throughout the whole article, it really makes people worry about David Bennay, who was only eleven years old at the time. Special will leave a psychological shadow in the shooting.
The birth of the mother is attributed to the "grandfather" who got into the "grandfather" under the four skirts of his grandmother in the potato field. Of course, it is said that his representative image is wartime America: the arsonist, the fisherman who profited, and the whole body retired. .
My grandmother stayed still, always alive, always able to endure hardship, always sitting in the potato field in her big dress. But from the moment my grandfather got under that skirt, the deformed life of the little protagonist Oscar had a piece of soil to grow.
Oscar's mother's life is romantic and lustful. From the beginning of her love affair to her death, she maintains a strange three-way relationship with her husband and cousin, one side is economic and the other is lust.
However, at a house party, she flirts with her cousin and sings love in public, she is undoubtedly perverted and beautiful, she does not show ugly in the whole movie, and even attracts the favor of toy dealers who know the details.
The husband represents the brutal German Nazi Party, the cousin represents the cowardly and compromised Poland, and the tender toy dealer represents the Jewish London. And among the three, she represents the beauty, struggle, and painful destruction of Danzig.
Under the poker table, the little boy Oscar, who witnessed his uncle's feet sticking into his mother's skirt, decided to direct and perform a good play of falling down the stairs, and he stopped growing and kept the appearance of a child. Under the influence of the distorted parental relationship, Oscar's resistance is undoubtedly distorted. Shattering glass is his special skill. He uses shattering "valuable things" to resist adults' domestication of him. Every resistance based on violence and destructive behavior succeeds. Oscar's eyes contain not innocence but more than that. The darkness of the adult world.
The children's world represented by Oscar in the small town of Danzig interprets darkness and perversion beyond the level of the adult world. Oscar's alienation is based on the abnormal relationship between his parents. "Children, Boy Scouts raped by soldiers, and even the "younger brother" who threw stones at Oscar are all alienated and distorted images of children squeezed by the adult world, a chain reaction created by the struggle of this small town.
The struggle and death of her mother represent the tender and beautiful destruction under the quarrel between the two nations. Her husband forced her to eat an eel that was caught with rotting horse heads as bait. The eel that represented her sexual organs was the trigger for her outbreak, and she also chose After committing suicide by overeating fish, she said that she was not distressed by the choice between two men, and that when she knew that she was pregnant with her husband's child, she would rather die than bear a Nazi child.
She is the destruction of tenderness and beauty, while her son Oscar is the success of savage growth.
Oscar's first half of his life was full of perverted relationships. His birth was the product of a chaotic sexual relationship among three people. He decided to stop growing because he had witnessed the obscenity of the adult world. Violence and absurdity in the town. His first love with the maid was undoubtedly a perverted relationship. The maid Maria maintained a relationship with their father and son at the same time, and eventually gave birth to a child who did not know who the father was.
And his only short-lived happiness like a normal person turned out to be the time he joined the dwarf circus to perform for the Nazis, and gained friendship, fame, love, and money, but all of this was based on being a clown for the Nazis. It is also a dwarf. The dwarf who clowns for the Nazis can gain popularity and fame, while the ordinary dwarf who returns to his hometown will be captured and locked up in order to clean up the race.
Oscar indirectly killed both of his fathers, and like his mother, it was a "no one's choice" revolt, only much more intense than his mother's. When he became a real orphan, he decided to give up his absurd resistance and start growing up. When the small town of Danzig was freed from slavery, the real growth and testing had just begun.
However, the most terrifying thing is that all these deformities are hidden in the most ordinary small town life and family life. In ordinary life, with everyone's tacit approval, distortion and alienation slowly ferment, grow, and explode. Everyone except Oscar chose to accept it numbly and passively.
It was an era of extreme conflict, and each era bred different perversions or deformities. If something extraordinary begins to happen, if there are clues, if you find that the response of each class is distorted and broken, if you find that each group cannot understand each other. So at this time, congratulations, the alienated society has already given birth to deformed sons, just waiting for an opportunity to give birth, just like a sandwich being stepped on, every layer will be crushed by being squeezed.
Oscar's tin drum beats exactly the sound of the derailment of the times, and his scream is the scream of a fall. But in the end, Oscar finally threw away the tin drum, and he was a typical example of savage growth. I just hope that every time the train derails, we happen to be the surviving passengers like Oscar. It doesn't matter how we struggle, it is not desirable to be completely awake. Only by surviving can we grow.
Words written in 2021:
The above is a review written in 2017. Unlike Eve's Time, I can recall the kind of headache I felt when I patiently watched this movie... It's similar to watching Infinite Motion, and I can put them together Classified as [NB but can't see] type, or [NB but headache] type. "Eve's Time" is the type that "looks at a headache but doesn't feel particularly NB and has a question mark".
I seem to be still watching the Norwegian version of "SKAM", as well as "Ghost in the Shell" and "Basic Deduction", which are necessary for dinner. ...but think about it, there is nothing to write about, these are more suitable for writing fanfiction (funny).
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