Death in Venice

Asa 2022-09-17 08:22:41

At last he fell before the phantom sea, his face contorted, his hair dye dripping like sweat. He seems to be dedicated to beauty and youth, but he is more like the clown guitarist who sang and begged for money that night and laughed wildly.

It didn't touch me as I imagined. At first, the male protagonist's voyeur-like eyes made me feel very uncomfortable. The actor played him so classy and motherly(?)

The smile that the teenager gave was just an illusion of unrequited love. But he couldn't understand why the boy looked back in front of him, did they like each other? Can you like each other just by watching a few more times?

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Death in Venice quotes

  • 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.

  • 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.