Another heavyweight film in the history of film, the representative work of the four new German directors Schlondorff. A phenomenal film that won the Palme d'Or and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
The overall look is: cruel, dirty, erotic, gloomy, weird and absurd.
The story on the surface is very clear, while the political and national metaphors and references in the inner layer are slightly obscure, requiring a certain amount of historical accumulation to interpret.
At first glance, the child's father is German, the cousin's uncle is Polish, and the toy store owner is Jewish. All three showed admiration for Danzig's mother. The mother is married to the German father, but the one who really loves is the uncle in Poland who cheats every Thursday, and the father turns a deaf ear to the blatant flirting between the mother and the uncle. numb to dull.
The number of symbolic metaphors in the film is outrageous - there is always a man hidden under the grandmother's skirt, Oscar's bizarre vagina crawling and inverted subjective perspective. The tin drum is used as the core prop throughout the whole film. The 3-year-old Oscar witnessed the filth of adults picking up the tin drum and refused to grow up. He fought the world with glass-shattering screams and annoying drums, shattering the teacher's glasses and shattering the street glass. He refused to go to school, but was bullied by his peers. He used a tin drum to turn the Nazi army brother into "Blue Danube" and ruined the Nazi parade. There are always trumpeters on the street, and a beggar character resembling the Prophet Holy Fool.
The shot of the mother eating the eel is a master, creating three spaces through mirror reflections.
The mother dies at the midpoint, and the story takes a new direction. The uncle (he is repeatedly implied to be the biological father) is shot and killed while guarding the Polish post office. Father married a new wife.
What is thought-provoking is the many pornographic content in the film - from the earliest uncle's affair with his mother, to the erotic scenes of the Russian monk Rasputin who was taught by his tutor in the palace, to the New Year's deformity between Oscar and Maria Love, kiss private parts, sex with powdered sugar. As well as the father's sex with Maria, the prostitute's tenderness to Oscar, and the love between the female dwarf Rosevita and Oscar. Sex is an extremely important clue in the film, but the metaphors and references behind it are unclear.
At the end of the film, the Russians occupied Germany, Oscar's father was shot with a Nazi medal, and he was orphaned. When the war was over, he threw the tin drum into his father's grave, fell into the grave himself, and started growing up again.
The young actor's acting skills are superb, and his eyes are chilling. As a young child, he has the childish appearance and kindness of a child, but also the desire and filth of an adult.
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