Even the only Beijing Film Festival this year is related to you. Because you like Thomas Mann. Because I love "Death in Venice". Because of Platonism.
If I see you now, you will find me old. But I love my aging so much, it's a proof of existence.
I have read "Death in Venice" several times, and I am shocked by the artist's pursuit of the ultimate sublime beauty in the world at the cost of destruction and death, just like the shock when I met you.
Visconti transformed Thomas Mann's literature into music, creating a character that represents Aschenbach's inner side, visualizing his literary expression.
After watching painting for a long time, you will feel the same with movies. Lily means holy, of course, refers to Aschenbach's love for Tazio. The hourglass is a metaphor for the passage of time and the shortness of life.
Tazio is the embodiment of the ideal beauty worshipped by ancient Greek culture, and the ultimate perfection that artists and philosophers pursue throughout their lives without hesitating to go to hell. The image of him wearing a bath towel and sloping his shoulders should not be too obvious to allude to ancient Greek clothing, and finally turned into a silhouette in the sunset, and made a pose similar to a David sculpture, because Tazio finally It is a symbol of the idealism that artists and philosophers have pursued throughout their lives. Fortunately, Visconti understood Thomas Mann.
Did Aschenbach end up dying of physical disease, or did he die of seeing the beauty he admired and fascinated trampled? To meet the unattainable beauty in the world, to meet someone who makes you shatter a part of your self, is it lucky or unfortunate. As Aschenbach, as I met you.
"Phaedo, only beauty is sacred and visible, so it is the artist's way to the soul. But, my dear Phaedo, do you believe that a man who attains spirituality by his senses can To gain wisdom and human dignity? Or do you think--this is a sweet and dangerous road with no results? .
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