(Would love to see it on the big screen.)
Absolutely long and boring movie, I almost couldn't finish it.
It's not a homosexual movie, it's just an image from beginning to end.
What he loves is the chance encounter without beginning and end, the tender body, the youthful years that cannot be repeated, the sea of Venice, and he loves his own fantasy more than a specific teenager. It cannot be said that he died in Venice for love, he just died in Venice for fantasy. First take off the tie and then take off the hat, to remove the worldly bondage.
It can also be said that the beautiful boy symbolizes the beauty of art, although I am really confused about the debate on the core of art.
Most of the shots are from the composer's point of view of the beautiful boy: looking at his face from a distance across the crowd, watching him play at the beach, and peeping the way the boy walked from under the bridge. The beautiful boy doesn't speak, but just stands there, fragile and mysterious, and the composer can never really touch the core of beauty, so I actually feel that it is a great regret to break Venice.
But perhaps it can also be said that the composer had never seen beauty before this?
The background is the epidemic, the epidemic that has been deliberately concealed, and the epidemic that cannot be concealed. Composers talk to people over and over to make sure they have questions in mind. In fact, undercurrents are surging in luxurious and high-end hotels. The street performers pretend to laugh wantonly and avoid talking about it. The morbid laugh, the more you laugh, the more painful it is. What pain is it, the fear of disease and death, or the desire for beauty? In other words, it is because of knowing that death is coming but not touching the slightest bit of beauty and feeling inexorable pain.
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