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Overall rating

5 / 5

Wanted to see Tin Drum since 1979

PostedSeptember 28, 2012

mtemkina

from NYC

Age:55 to 64

Gender:Female

Goes to the movies:monthly

Dialogue

5 / 5

Special Effects

5 / 5

Art Direction

5 / 5

Acting

5 / 5

Story

5 / 5

Camerawork

5 / 5

I really did want to see this movie since the time it was out, after I read initial reviews. the good news, it happened yesterday. Gunter Grass is an interesting figure, more than just a writer, and this is partly the biographical book that became a great movie via the script. The story takes place in Danzig (not sure about the spelling, apologies!), the city on Baltic shores, populated by Poles, Germans, Jews and other minorities co-existed well intermarrying and going through the period between the first and the second world wars rather peacefully. The story is told by the boy who did not want to grow. This of course is a metaphor. Nobody can grow emotionally undergoing the traumatic experiences of family secrets, exposed sex, losses and the sadistic absurd of Nazism and wars. The movie is somewhat surreal, magic, crazy and fascinating. It avoids explanations and moralizing, it simply accepts that people do horrible things to each other. Cinematography is a bit hyper-realist plus Fellini plus the whole separate drama of gender narrative. And it all begins from the grandmother, the matriarch of the family and the city tribal life. This movie is the best what's going on in the movie theaters now. Run to see, it's a must.

Pros great story, great actors, learning true history, childhood story, a must

Yes, I recommend this movie.

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