Die Blechtrommel

Deangelo 2022-04-19 09:03:11

Oscar (David Bennent David Bennent ornaments) family is a bit absurd. His mother fell in love with her cousin and was forced to marry a businessman because close relatives could not marry. Only his mother knew whose child Oscar was. On his third birthday, his mother gave him a tin drum. Oscar liked it very much and hung it around his neck and knocked it.
One day, Oscar discovered the secret of his mother and uncle while hiding under the table to play. He thought that the adult world was full of deceit, so he decided not to grow up. When Oscar jumped from the upstairs, a miracle happened, he no longer grew taller, and his height was always only three years old!
Oscar also accidentally acquired a mysterious ability - a high-decibel scream. When he saw his mother and his uncle rendezvous, he would climb up the bell tower and shatter all the glass with a scream; when the teacher scolded him, his scream broke the teacher's eyes. Oscar maintained his height at the age of three and grew up slowly.

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Extended Reading
  • Leonora 2022-03-15 09:01:11

    Adapted from the Nobel Prize in Literature, which won the Palme d'Or and Owai. Metaphors about nation and war run through the whole film, and the absurd and treacherous plot makes the film full of highlights. The little actors are natural, and the director's ability to train the actors is unparalleled (thinking that he was only in his early 10s when he acted in this film, he broke down a bit), which is amazing. However, some scenes in the film are blunt and the language of the shots is single. It can be seen that the script (original) is the key to the success of the film. [162-minute director's cut]

  • Jason 2022-03-28 09:01:13

    The perspective and narrative of this evil child are too special. After reading it, I strongly request to read the original work. From his crazy destruction of the adult world, from his stubborn insistence on not growing up, from the dramatic metaphor of each character, it constitutes a historical depiction of the eve of World War II. Movies generally use dolly zoom, and there are quite a few shots that regress from close-up to wide-angle, which is worth learning anyway.

The Tin Drum quotes

  • Agnes Matzerath: Don't expect me to touch your eels.

    Alfred Matzerath: Don't put on airs.

    Agnes Matzerath: I'll never eat fish again. Certainly not eels.

    Alfred Matzerath: You've always eaten them, and you knew where they came from!

  • 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.