What a disturbing, unpleasant and often disgusting this Palm D' Or and Oscar Winner for the Best Foreign Language Film is. Perhaps it is appropriate given a bizarre look at the history of Germany from the World War 1 through the rise of the Nazis through the eyes of a weird child who refused to grow at his third Birthday. Little Oscar symbolized a conscience of the citizens of Danzig when the Nazis are in power and the war rages. I am expected to sympathize with Oscar because he supposedly understands better than any adult around him what the chaos of 1920s would bring to life to Germany and to the world in 1930s but I simply can't. For me, Oscar is the scariest and creepiest little creature with the empty and cold eyes of young Alex de Large whose expressing his outrage by constant pounding on his toy tin drum and screaming with window-shattering voice only annoyed me. As the years pass, Oscar turned into a teenager who became naturally interested in girls but was trapped in a little boy's body, which contributed to some of most disturbing and repulsing scenes in films that I've ever seen and I am a quite open-minded and tolerant moviegoer. The movie's imagery is powerful and I guess the filmmaker drove his point across but for me, "The Tin Drum" is too cold to genially touch me and too unpleasant to like it.
Review of The Tin Drum
