Disturbing Films

[Enna05]

Was the movie that you're talking about The Tin Drum?

A bit of history... It's actually a highly influential German film directed by Volker Schlöndorff. The director actually first gained notoriety as an innovator of the "New German Cinema." He severely criticized German society with his earlier films, but by the time he made The Tin Drum, his movies lost most of the radical edge... instead, this film was embraced by the European Art Cinema and eventually the world. However, the film was still a biting social satire of Nazism.

The movie's plot concerns a young boy who refuses to grow up. It's really disturbing... his mother has a tendency to eat whole fish, a fisherman uses a horse's head as bait for eels, Oskar (who looks like an 3 year old) has sex with much older looking women...

We watched it in one of my film classes... imagine 350 19 year olds as the audience. Scary, scary stuff. But I have to say, no one fell asleep in that class!

I also though the Poseidon Adventure was really disturbing when I was younger. I was expecting a light comedy... not the deathfest that it was!

~Enna

(edited for spelling)