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The Natural History Museum (Ziran Bowuguan) has China’s best display of dinosaur skeletons.
You've seen this sort of picture before: People get drunk and drag skeletons out of closets, and the tension between the formal dinner party rituals and the truths that simmer beneath the surface give way to a Walpurgisnacht . The anti-patriarchal content is fairly routine, but you should see the movie anyway because the director, Thomas Vinterberg, is a great, hypersensitive filmmaker whose edgy, grainy, caught-on-the-fly camerawork seems to make the very celluloid shiver with rage.
Simon goes out to nightclubs, where he takes unholy quantities of drugs and sneaks off to have sex with his hot, vacant girlfriend; this is as sickening to him as "two skeletons copulating in a wardrobe."
The association of lime and bones is not accidental: Limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3) is nothing but the fossilized skeletons of tiny sea animals, and calcium is the principal ingredient of bone; when Shakespeare wrote, in The Tempest , that Of his bones are coral made, he stated a truer fact of nature than he may have known.
Compare the eeriest passages of The Tin Drum with Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's descriptions of the wintry death marches by means of which the Nazis killed off most of the remainder of their concentration-camp prisoners at the end of the war--exercises in pure surrealism, with skeletons moving slowly through a well-fed German countryside--and suddenly even Grass' fertile imagination seems impoverished.
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