The boy is the rebellious self that refuses to grow up in our hearts. The simplicity, beauty, and hatred of his children are all rare but very precious things among adults. To refuse to grow up is to refuse to become such an adult, to refuse to fit into this world, this ugly world. In his opinion, the world of adults is not worth having. He refuses to be that kind of person.
In fact, why hasn't there been such a person in this world who refuses to grow up, who doesn't associate with the world, but the film is more absurd, more dramatic and exaggerated. And this perspective brings us a different world and feeling.
The tin drum is his disguise, his weapon, his sustenance, and he shuts himself up in the beauty he weaves, as if his world would be strong and indestructible, beautiful and simple and thorough. So when he rejects the outer world, his inner world is powerful, and he doesn't feel as fragile and uneasy as a child should be. At the same time, he is very fragile and lonely in terms of emotions, so he projected all his emotions on the tin drum. To be precise, the tin drum is his spiritual sustenance. From his child's perspective, we can see what the world looks like in his eyes. It is not bloody and ordinary, which highlights the cruelty of life, indifference, colorless, funny and ridiculous. The insignificance of human beings is blown away like dust. The existence of the performance troupe is like a ray of light in a dark room, allowing him to see his peers, who are Oscar's spiritual world and his longing pursuit. And all the things that happened after that came to an end at the end of his father's death. The moment we throw away the tin drum is the moment of reconciliation with the world, and in the end we see that we are just an ordinary person in the crowd. And after all, we have to grow up and learn to forgive. So at that moment he grew up.
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