Message 887

Yesterday I took my Sienna in for its 100,000-mile servicing. I was a little late since it now has 103,000 miles on it. It is still running great. I hope it can go to at least 200,000 miles. In the evening Mimi and I watched a DVD of the German movie The Tin Drum. It is based on a famous book written by Gunter Grass, but I have not read it. It is an allegory about the Nazi period in Germany. It is often farcical, but it succeeds because it paints such a good picture of the lower-middle class in Germany in that period. The tragedy of World War 2 is presented as what happens when the lower middle class takes power and foists its infantile and absurd ideas on the world. I give the movie 3.5 stars because it is not easy to watch.