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I don't even want to be a layman to watch the fun, it's really depressing!
Timothy 2022-10-10 17:35:15
This film tells a story: a middle-aged man came to Venice alone and fell in love with an underage boy. Always peeping and following people. During this time, the two kept staring at each other. After that, they kept following and staring at each other for a few days. In the end, the middle-aged man didn't have the courage to step forward and say a word to the young man, so he hung up, and the play ended! - That's how laymen see it. If you are an expert, go to the original book of the same name: Thomas Mann's "Soulbroken in Venice", and listen to Mahler's Fifth Symphony, the fourth movement. Maybe you will have a different experience!
Extended Reading
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Gustav von Aschenbach: I remember we had one of these in my father's house. The aperture through which the sand runs is so tiny that... that first it seems as if the level in the upper glass never changes. To our eyes it appears that the sand runs out only... only at the end... and until it does, it's not worth thinking about... 'til the last moment... when there's no more time left to think about it.
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Gustav von Aschenbach: You know sometimes I think that artists are rather like hunters aiming in the dark. They don't know what their target is, and they don't know if they've hit it. But you can't expect life to illuminate the target and steady your aim. The creation of beauty and purity is a spiritual act.
Alfred: No Gustav, no. Beauty belongs to the senses. Only to the senses.