Wrote this for a film review assignment. At Xiamen University, I learned that I didn't copy and paste because of my ability to talk nonsense, and I still made progress. This article has encountered a great god, please criticize a lot. —————————————————————————————— I read the novel "The Tin Drum" a year ago, and I have an impression of the first-person narrative in the book. profound. The surreal nature of many of the elements in the story also makes the story peculiar. However, the novel itself is more of a real story in the period before and after World War II. Because of my lack of understanding of the historical background of the novel and the sense of cultural distance, I was unable to finish reading the novel in the end. The film is faithful to the way of combining the surreal elements of the novel with the core of reality. Using the unique audio-visual language of the film, under the interpretation of the director, it presents a story that is surreal but very natural. Compared with the novel, although it ignores some It is inconvenient to express the part, but it achieves the effect of conveying political metaphor in form. Take a look at the film below in terms of sound effects, narrative and other details. 1. The magical realism in the sound effect is called "The Tin Drum". The protagonist Oscar is a child who decided not to grow up on his 3rd birthday. Since then, he and his tin drum have been with him. The drums have thus become one of the most important sounds in the film. As an important means of narrative, Oscar's narration is also one of the most important voices. The title introduces the story of Grandma's youth with drum beats and Oscar's narration. At this time, the drums were light and even humorous. Oscar also used a typical child's voice to narrate. In fact, the story to be told here is not a lighthearted one. According to the speculation at the end of the film, Oscar who tells the story is also at least 20 For a young man, the director used inappropriate sound effects that did not conform to the "facts". This set the tone for the film's magical realism. This kind of expression method of using "unrealistic" sound effects to match "reality" to achieve a "surreal" effect is not uncommon in the film. For example, the soundtrack of the opening title, first of all, is a strange and unpleasant sound that does not make a tune, and then adds a grand and sad music, which is completely different from the original brisk drum beat. Whether it's the cheerful sound of trumpets on the street when Oscar was forced to drink "soup" by a group of children, the melodious and soothing soundtrack in the first war of World War II, or the scene where Oscar slipped under his grandmother's skirt after his mother was buried. The same grotesque music, strange sound effects and distant music, etc., all enhance the grotesque and surreal temperament of the film. Another thing I have to mention is the theme music of the toy store. The three scenes in the toy store are accompanied by wonderful and magical music each time. This is where Oscar changes his drums. Among the several scenes in the toy store, in the first scene, he saw his mother and his uncle cheating, and boarded the board. The bell tower shatters the glass of the church with a scream; in the second scene, the toy store owner begs Mom to choose him or her husband over her cousin, and Mom takes Oscar to church, where Oscar blasphemes and then commits a crime. In his so-called first crime, he indirectly killed his mother; in the last scene, Oscar came to the toy store after the owner of the toy store committed suicide, saying that the owner took all the toys in the world, and the next scene was Oscar Allegedly his second crime, indirectly killing his uncle. Therefore, the toy store is a place where Oscar's blasphemy and crime against God are closely combined. Every time the wonderful and magical soundtrack and the subsequent Oscar's questioning of God are contradictory, and this contradiction is in line with the magic of the film. The overall tone of reality. Oscar's screams and drums have the same special effect. Except for the narration, Oscar has almost no actual lines. Screams and drums are the only way for him to express himself. The screams in the first half of the film were made by Oscar to defend his tin drum. The first time Dad wanted to take his tin drum and replace it with a new one, he screamed involuntarily, and for the first time found that his scream could shatter glass. He later shattered the teacher's glasses with his own scream when the teacher in the classroom was about to take away his tin drum. Then his mother took him to the doctor, the nurse tried to take his tin drum and he screamed again and shattered the doctor's specimen bottle. After that, no one tried to take his tin drum, nor did he scream about it. He only shattered the glass of the church when his mother and uncle were having an affair, and only showed this special ability when performing for the army. Oscar's drums also sounded from time to time with Oscar's appearance. One of the most surreal parts was that he secretly beat the dance drums in the speeches and assemblies, manipulating the rhythm of everyone in the scene. At other times, the drums replaced Oscar's language. expresses his emotions and attitudes. In class, at church, when Mom was buried...until when Dad was buried he decided to grow up again and lost the tin drum, and the drum stopped beating. Both of these voices are far more powerful than reality, but are in the most realistic Oscar thinking, and replace the language of the actual Oscar that should be the most powerful, which not only adds to the film's eerie atmosphere, but also The symbolism of this sound reminds the metaphor of the film, which further embodies the style of magic realism. 2. Political Metaphors in Narrative and Filming The narrative structure of the film is very simple, that is, the occurrence, development and end of events are unfolded in chronological order from the Oscar's first-person perspective. The technique used to express Oscar's perspective in the film is, first of all, his monologue throughout the film. In the film, Oscar's dialogue is very, very little, and his psychological state is expressed through monologues. In terms of narrative, his monologue also played a very important role. For example, he recounted through the narration that he committed the first crime after indirectly killing his mother, and later told the second crime of indirectly killing his uncle through the narration. , if these narrations are removed, the audience will have many difficulties in understanding the narrative. Because whether it is a novel or a movie, "The Tin Drum" is dominated by subjective narratives. In this way, the audience can easily feel a sense of substitution, so that they have more psychological space to think about the meaning behind what is said, that is, the Danzig area that Germany and Poland had long competed for from before World War II until the end of World War II. , The things that Oscar has seen and experienced are all symbolic. When Oscar was born, the director adopted a very grotesque performance method. He showed the scene from the perspective of Oscar in the womb, and also laid the foundation for observing the whole world from the subjective perspective of Oscar. At Oscar's third birthday party, the camera was constantly switching between Oscar's observation and the performance of everyone in the family. During the family playing cards, the camera angle was lowered, shot from Oscar's height, and then drilled under the table following him. Witness the secret flirtation between mom and uncle. Later, her mother was on the verge of collapse because of her cheating, and she had a conflict with her father. When his uncle was comforting his mother in the bedroom, Oscar hid in the closet and saw the ambiguous behavior of the two. In this scene, the camera shifts from the mother and uncle to a close-up of Oscar in the dark wardrobe, bringing the audience into Oscar's musings: the German dad, the Polish uncle who may be his own dad, and the two The mother who doesn't know where to go, and Oscar, who doesn't want to grow up, has a very close and special relationship with his mother. He didn't even want to leave his mother's body when he was born, and he didn't want to come to this world. At this time, he was just like his mother. Not sure where to go. He and his mother were like Danzig, which was contested by Germany and Poland. When she had to make a decision, her mother chose to commit suicide. When World War II ended, and her uncle and father died one by one, Oscar chose to grow up again. His psychological journey over the past 20 years has wrapped the real and cruel experience in an unrealistic form through the first-person narrative perspective. Only this narrative and shooting perspective can allow the audience to have a more personal experience. 3. Other details: tone, downgrade, etc. "The Tin Drum" is famous for its magical realism, but also implies political metaphors. In addition to the above aspects, many details can be noticed in the whole film, which are actually a bit absurd and weird. First of all, the tones of the film have a very wet feel, and the colors are surprisingly full. This invisibly relieves the repression of the content of the film itself. Although it is cruel, a trace of weirdness is also acceptable. When it comes to color, red is an important color element. In the film, Mom, Uncle, and Dad are at the beach with Oscar when they see a fisherman catch a corrupt horse's head, from which fish keep pouring out. The colors of this scene are mainly the dark blue of the sea, the light blue of the sky and the white of the beach, but the mother is wearing a bright red dress. This is the first time in the film that the mother clearly shows her love for herself The unbearable relationship with uncle and father is precisely the dramatic emotion of the characters with the help of the highlight of color. Since then, Oscar's first love, Maria, also turned out her mother's red clothes to wear after she became pregnant. The dwarf actress also wore red clothes on her last outing before her death. The colors of the most important female characters in these films are all Consistent with the mother through the clothes, red is not only a means of highlighting the character, but also a symbol of coherence. The mother's body has a special meaning for Oscar who doesn't want to grow up. These women in red are the objects that Oscar pays close attention to in this absurd but real world. There is also an important female character in the film, that is Oscar's grandmother. She is not symbolized by red clothes, but her four-layer skirt, which is dark and simple in color, but both grandfather and Oscar have drilled into her. Find shelter inside your skirt. The contrast between the grandmother's big skirt and the red dress, and then to the grandma in the big skirt in the scene similar to the opening scene at the end of the play, also implies the changing mother and Oscar's final choice to grow up after leaving the mother. In addition, the film uses a special technique, downgrading. There are four scenes in the film that use downgrading: the grandfather is found by the police and falls under the wooden raft and disappears; the young mother and uncle hug and kiss; the father pursues his mother with food before marriage; and everyone gathers for dinner after the mother is buried. These scenes are all scenes that promote the development of the later plot. The use of downgrades gives people a feeling of unreality, which seems to imply the unreality of the story. It may be understood as a formalized move by the director to reflect magical realism. After watching the whole film, there is a sense of both absurdity and reality, at least in the form of magic realism. The adults in the story are absurd and helpless, but Oscar, as a child, has a maturity and ruthlessness beyond his age and body.
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