The tin drum bound by the times

Rhett 2022-03-21 09:03:26

People die one by one. Only the child has been standing and staring from afar. With his tin drum.
He is like a demon, facing uninterrupted death. But it is only the nightmare of the times that makes him a scapegoat The lamb.

I thought about it when I was three years old. I saw through the hypocrisy and deception of adults, so I didn't want to grow up. God blessed him, and he really stopped growing absurdly after falling down the stairs. However, he didn't know, his heart did not grow up. Stop growing, he is still growing more and more mature. However, he did not see that the most sincere and frightening thing is that one day in the future, he will also become the same hypocrisy and terror.

Seduced and seduced, he was rounded up by the times. Desire tortured him to the point of losing his mind. Because he was a dwarf, because he was not treated as an adult. So he lost the passion he should have had. And that bound emotion gradually distorted and became deformed.
An interesting hint in the film Yes, he was called into the bed by a woman to keep warm. The woman rubbed his hands like a child to keep him warm. At this time, the camera turned to a cactus outside the window, in the shape of a stick. We can understand it as a boy The erect penis.
It is precisely because of this unrecognized sexual maturity that everything becomes so difficult and insidious. In fact, similar issues have been widely discussed, but the film has magnified the problem. When should father start Pay attention to the distance with your daughter and stop touching her head; mothers should not walk around naked when their sons are at home, or help their sons bathe. Children mature inadvertently under the care of society. On his third birthday, seeing his mother's affair with his uncle gave him the extravagant desire not to grow up.

Whether it's cardamom or osmanthus. The result of dying because of a cup of coffee is unacceptable, but he has to make a sneer. Yes. Or the elders are right: "We dwarfs and fools should not go to the front line of the battlefield to perform, that is the battlefield of giants". However, Germany during World War II, where is not the front line? Hitler's precariousness in the hail of bullets is like his symbol Sex gestures are just as hilarious.

When the Nazis were proud, they did not hesitate to take down the portrait of Beethoven, the pride of the nation, and replaced it with a picture of Hitler. The German army was defeated, and finally sighed: "Beethoven is a genius". Yes, he is indeed, he chose And he will always become the pride of Germany. But the Germans did not forget to mock the Russians while exposing the evil deeds of the Nazis. Because at least at the end of the film, the actions of the Russian soldiers are even more impressive Disgusting.

He killed another person. He vented his anger in the most causal way. He took revenge on the souls who were also bound by that era. The eyes in the distance never changed. There was no expression, no color of anger on his face Struggling at the critical point of hypocrisy and hatred, he beat his tin drum again. "I am an orphan now", he threw the tin drum away. "You should grow up now". He He was hit by a stone and fell mechanically. Without any warning, he hovered on the edge of the world where nothing was worth anything. "He is growing up!". However, under the same sunset, the crooked corner of the mouth once again proved The phrase "people are just desires with different names". It

was also his grandmother, who started from the man under the long skirt to the train that left. After living an absurd life, she chose to stay in that absurd country. Can the traveling train really carry them to a world that is not absurd?
Thank you for watching the Tin Drum.

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  • Letha 2022-03-28 09:01:13

    Very depressing no-nonsense film. Almost all the elements of a horror movie: expressionless children with more whites than eyeballs, dwarfs, clowns, screams, inexplicable deaths

  • Rosalee 2022-03-17 09:01:10

    Realistic themes, constructed with surreal techniques, open up a naive and pure childhood perspective. The recent "Jojo Rabbit" is similar to this one. From an aesthetic point of view, this year's Oscar-nominated new film always makes people doubt the sincerity of its creation. The thickness of "The Tin Drum" comes from the description of the absurd, cruel, and distorted world. Children's perspective and tone provide many conveniences for the narrative. It is sad but not sad, sympathetic but not compassionate, with criticism and survival belief. The drum beat of the tin drum resonates with the times, trying to make a strong sound from the individual cry. Stopping growth is not self-dwarfing, but confrontation and division. The crisp drum beats and the amazing roar are exactly the clamor and confrontation against the Nazis who have been rampant for many years, unwilling to accept the reality, can only fold, cruelly cut off from the external environment, and refuse to grow. This is a high-level perspective and thinking, and it is also a metaphor. The simple emotions are wrapped in reflections and accusations of the nation. The fate of the nation and the living conditions of the individual are integrated into the absurd image, and the growth itself is also a kind of suffering, with scars and pains.

The Tin Drum quotes

  • 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.

  • Jan Bronski: [Jan arrives and sees Alfred getting dressed in Nazi uniform] Going to the demonstration?

    Alfred Matzerath: Yes, at the fairground. A mass rally. Lobsack is speaking, and what a speaker he is. I tell you, these are historic days. A man can't stand asie. You've gotta join in.

    [looking at the newspaper Jan is carrying]

    Alfred Matzerath: You should read the Danzig Sentinel. Your siding with Poland is crazy. I've told you a thousand times.

    Jan Bronski: I am Polish!

    Alfred Matzerath: Think it over