Magical reality

Camilla 2022-04-24 07:01:25

It's a poignant film that also tells a story of coming-of-age, war, childhood, nation, Nazis, marriage, and more. It can be said that from a child's eyes, it is projected that during the Second World War, Eastern Europe was a place where ethnic groups were mixed, and the social world was in a cool and cold state. The ugliness of the adult world. The whole film uses a darker tone to describe this chaotic era. The little boy loves the tin drum very much. Because he sees the helplessness and ugliness of the adult world, he refuses to grow up, and has a stunt that others dare not mess with. So he chose to put himself in a world of his own, refusing to be an adult who rushes around for a living. Although the growth of the little boy is the main line, the bizarre world seen through the eyes of the little boy is the reality that the film wants to reflect. The boy's mother is a victim of this cannibalistic society. She doesn't know if her love is love , but her marriage is definitely her tragedy. The grandmother symbolizes those things that will not change with time. Speaking of this, I think of the four generations I saw a while ago. The old man said, what's the big deal? They all have to eat and urinate. live. There is a very interesting plot in the film. The Nazis are holding a rally, and the enthusiastic people are serious and ridiculous. At this time, the little boy beats the tin drum to disrupt the rhythm of the band. The consequence is that the whole square dances together. , everyone can't help it, this scene is simply the most powerful satire of Nazism. The love of music and dance is human nature, and the empty slogans of those boring rituals are the greatest destruction to human nature. Therefore, the film uses a very realistic and even cruel angle. At the end of the film, there is also a scene of the Soviet Red Army raping women, to give another interpretation of World War II, or from a more objective point of view, those so-called political and national wars. Just a disaster. An epic movie.

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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.