A little thought record

Margarette 2022-04-22 07:01:55

1. The camera perspective is changed, from subjective to objective 2. The use of symbols, screaming is resentful, a response to the absurd world. A family represents the three political positions of the country (mother is incompetent, father is a dictatorial Nazi, cousin is peaceful). Architecture is a symbol of order. After seeing his mother cheating, Oscar hopes to destroy this sanctimonious world. is ridiculous. The eels are Polish and Jewish, and the mother fights with music. Mother eating fish is human alienation. Sexual suggestion, replacement of Beethoven and Hitler portraits. The nun 3. The cousin is Polish, but he can only be cheating on the edge of the country, but he and Oscar have the same blue eyes 4. When the Nazis gave a speech, Oscar stepped on a pile of shit haha Doctrine, Towards Harmony 6. It was very moving and cruel when the post office was captured, the cousin who was at a loss with the gun, the old man who sorted out the documents in the war, the serenity of playing cards before his death (actually collapsed), the person who was beaten to death with a white handkerchief . 7. Several times in the movie staring cousin was caught, Oscar was born. 8. Describes the madness of the war, the absurd citizens, and the spiritual destruction of people with the aftermath of the war.

The identity of the characters is equivalent to that of the three countries. The father is Germany, the mother is Danze, and the cousin is Poland.

In the end, the grandmother who returned to the beginning picks up potatoes, forming a closed narrative loop, perfect. The expression is that we come from our mother and go back to our mother, the symbol of the father's language and order that separates and fights us, and the male-dominated war is the source of all disasters. Mother is a symbol of peace and a desire to return to the mother body and the real world.

Lens language is superb

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Extended Reading
  • Kelsie 2022-03-28 09:01:13

    [Return of Shanghai Film Festival] Schlondorf's masterpiece, won the Palme d'Or and Oscar. Adapted from the novel of Günterglass, the film reveals the history of Danzig through the ups and downs of the dwarf's life and weird perspective, the contradictions of human nature and the darkness of the Nazis, the absurdity and strangeness are tragic sadness. Impressive scenes: perspective from the womb, blue Danube, sex and soda powder, horsehead eel, child and drum, the ending is pulled away from the camera. (9.0/10)

  • Kristoffer 2022-03-26 09:01:14

    I think this film is really not my style. The editing is fragmented, although there are also absurdities, although there are sighs of life and the metaphorical atmosphere of fables, but I don’t think it is very easy to understand, and as a film, it is still a beautiful film with a few shots. Saying it's a story from the Polish region sounds like typical High German with an accent.

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.