Pynchon-esque films

[Robin Landseadel]

On Sep 15, 2009, at 4:34 PM, Daniel Cape wrote:

>> When I first read Gravity's Rainbow it was Polker's story that really
>> grabbed me. The film of "The Tin Drum" came out around the time I  
>> started
>> reading Gravity's Rainbow. Who influenced who, when and where? I  
>> don't know,
>> but it struck me that a variation on Polker's story was being told  
>> from a
>> very different angle in The Tin Drum [the movie.]
>
> Wow, I just wiki'd the film and it turns out it was the centre of an
> obscenity trial. Innaresting. Never seen it, but i shall.
> What are the similarities between Pokler's arc and the film? Pokler's
> acceptance of the series of dummy daughters, i.e. not 'growing up' and
> facing the terrors of the regime his employers?

And also the idea of an abandoned child, doomed to never grow up,  
adrift in WWII. Like, what probably happened to Polker's other  
"daughters".