The world of the
adults is full of violence, crassness, baseless activities and meaningless
existence. Adults solely go after wealth, material gain and power.
It is not worth
coming into this world, where the adults think that they are terribly important
while evidently their existence is utter ridiculousness if not anything else.
Like any child
who displays an attitude of self-centeredness
concerned only with what he wants at that moment, the adults share the same outlook in their miserable existence.
concerned only with what he wants at that moment, the adults share the same outlook in their miserable existence.
Under these
circumstances, a three year old boy foreseeing the sickly behavioral attitude
of the disgusting grown-ups, the adult antics and of the futile future of existence
decides to stop growing!
He becomes an
observer rather than a participant in world and worldly affairs, leading a life
of existential solitude – while life and time marches on.
Before and while
watching this Deutsch film ‘The Tin Drum’ {1979} by Volker Schlöndorff [novel by Günter Grass] one
would do well by recalling the grotesque history of Germany in the 1st
half of the 20th Century.
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