Never Look Away--Art Is Both Secondary And Important

Tremayne 2022-07-13 11:31:07

He devotes himself to art, seeking only true beauty. Under the chaos of war and repression, art is often both secondary and important. In Schindler's List, only available productivity like a mechanic can avoid being sent to concentration camps, and fluent writers and teachers of literature and history can only save their lives by entering the enamel factory in disguise. He devotes himself to art, seeking only true beauty. Under the chaos of war and repression, art is often both secondary and important. In Schindler's List, only available productivity like a mechanic can avoid being sent to concentration camps, and fluent writers and teachers of literature and history can only save their lives by entering the enamel factory in disguise.


In "The Pianist," Spearman moved the Nazi officers to get help by virtue of his affectionate performance of Chopin's "Ballet No. 1 in G minor". Sometimes art eventually occupies a part of human instinct, awakening kindness and conscience at critical moments. In "Wiretap Storm", the secret policeman Wessler was moved by the art of the playwright Dryman during the wiretap and chose to take risks to cover him secretly. The "this is for me" pun at the end, even though no one else knows about it, Wessler still happily accepts the "Sonata for a Good Man".

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Never Look Away quotes

  • NKWD Major Murawjow: Whoever saves a life saves the entire world.

  • Kurt Barnert: You're so beautiful, it's almost unromantic. It's far too easy to love you. Do you love me? Do you love me? Otherwise it doesn't work for me. Without love, it won't work.