The first paragraph of the film is an absurd plot, and of course it also explains Oscar's life and life.
The grandfather, who was being chased by the police, met his grandmother, who was baking potatoes in the wilderness, and hid under his grandmother's wide skirt. While the grandmother was dealing with the police who came to ask questions, the grandfather was actually doing things between men and women under the pomegranate skirt. Since then, the continuous pursuit of the police and the escape of his grandfather by jumping into the river can tell that his crime must be very serious. If he was arrested at the time, he would have ended badly, but the desire still drove him crazy, and even life and death were put aside under the pomegranate skirt.
The meaning of Oscar's birth:
Oscar's monologue can be heard in the film, he did not want to be born at first. Until, he knew he could have a tin drum. Essentially, he was born to understand his mission. His mission is to use the drums to wake up people who are trapped in the whirlpool of desire.
Those were crazy times. Desires are hidden under superficial rules, just like Oscar's own mother. However, this is a crazy era, and desires are inflated, like ants driven by rain, constantly crawling out of the deep underground. The Nazis appeared.
Like Oscar's mother, both are ruined. In particular, it should be pointed out that Oscar's mother died in a suicidal manner, punishing herself for her sins.
The perfection of the plot is that it not only makes an analogy that is very logical and objective, from the microscopic human heart to the macroscopic social reflection. And the author also found out the reason, and the person responsible. Oscar's tin drum used to be played in schools, during private meetings between his mother and his cousin, in churches, and in Nazi barracks. School is the education of society, and parents are the first mentors of children. The shouting of the Nazi barracks was only treated as a performance, and Oscar asked the gods, why didn't you wake them up? ! So he gave the drum in his hand to the gods! God, save them, let them wake up!
What is rare is that the author also asked about human nature itself! Can't man discover his own problems through his own abilities?
That's where the eel plot comes in. A woman's heart is sensitive, and women are more gentle and kind. Oscar's mother insisted that she would not eat eel at first. However, after her cousin's caress, she numbly ate the eel. until you die. Desire is like a dark cloud, kindness is the sun, and the sun is sometimes obscured by dark clouds. The end of desire is despair, is death.
The eel is attracted by the rotten bull's head, chopped into cubes and eaten by people; the same is true of people, whose desires are hard to disappear, and they are consumed by other things. The end of desire is despair, death.
Not just sex, appetite, killing, control, possessiveness. . . . . . Pregnant girl Maria, the female dwarf who was blown up to drink coffee, the brutal and crazy Nazi, we indulge our desires and become slaves of desires.
At the end of the film, Oscar and his party left by train, leaving the grandmother alone. Like the opening scene, grandmother is roasting potatoes in the wilderness.
At first, I was pessimistic, thinking that this was the beginning of a great chaos, but it was the beginning of another chaos. This is how human history repeats itself. Humans make the same mistakes over and over again.
Now, the ending can be explained in another way. Desire is human nature, an animal instinct. No reason, no emotion, just a simple impulse. But above desire, human beings can produce emotions. Although the grandfather and grandmother started because of desire, but the grandmother did have a beautiful love for the grandfather. Not to mention saving my grandfather, I helped my grandfather escape in the hunt a few years later, even if the man never came back, or died or became a rich man in a foreign land. The grandmother has been waiting, waiting on the wilderness of encounter. There is no sex between them, so the driving force behind the grandmother is not carnal desire, but pure and noble love.
Like Oscar's father said to Maria after the accident. Beyond the pleasures of the flesh, man seeks love, noble love.
This is an interesting proposition. On the wilderness of desire, the flower of love blooms.
Of course the gods couldn't beat the tin drum. If a man has no desire, he ceases to be a man and becomes a god.
But if it's all about desire, it's the devil, and the world immediately becomes hell. Humans are such a group of struggling creatures. Tears in laughter and laughter in tears.
The war is over, it is a war between man and his own desires. As long as the people are awakened, the inner battle will be won, and the battle in the outer world will naturally be won.
So Oscar's mission is over, people have woken up, and the tin drum is no longer needed. Not only that, but Oscar also found a new meaning to being human, and he started to grow up.
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