I won't pretend to offer literary or historical criticism - all I can tell you is that when The Tin Drum movie arrived stateside, it traumatized a lot of people, myself included.

Movies generally do little justice to the books upon which they are based, and probably in the case of The Tin Drum, that might have been a plus.

Nevertheless, when I have a chance to watch a German language movie - and to be fair, it's stuff you find on Netflix - The Tin Drum sets the standard.