Soul Break Venice

Alysa 2022-11-16 13:53:42

Knowing this movie came from a very unintentional conversation, accidentally talking about Wilde, and leading a friend to talk about "Soulbroken Venice". I searched around for some information about this movie, and found that it is actually three in one - composer, writer, director, all comrades. Well, I admit, I am very gossipy~ The original purpose of watching this movie was for the beautiful boy in the play.



Speaking of which, I probably really don’t have much artistic talent. I really don’t understand or understand the discussion about music, about art, and about their excitement as if they saw the light of God in the play.



Some pale images make prosperous Venice reveal an uncoordinated bleakness. From the very beginning, Aschenbach's anxious eyes set the tone of sadness for the whole film. I have to say, Dirk Bogarde's acting is really good, anxious, confused, restless, distracted, a little nervous, and the mood that is about to collapse at any time throughout the whole film, very catchy. Ghostly followed behind Tazio, and kept catching him with his eyes. Every time he saw Tazio, he couldn't help but be full of excitement, his breathing was short, and his heart seemed to be unable to bear such intense emotions. When this twilight person dyed his white hair, painted his eyebrows, put on foundation, and put on lipstick, his life had entered the countdown, and he was deeply sad and depressing.



Tazio is indeed beautiful, and the freeze frame at any time is like a painting. It is hard to imagine that such a beautiful and impeccable outline can be found in a movie so many years ago. I always felt that it was impossible to find the shadow of anime in reality, but he made me blur this definition. It is very similar to Chiho Saito's painting style, with curly and thick hair, deep eyes, delicate nose bridge, delicate skin, almost transparent under the sunlight, no matter from which angle, it is a picture that makes people feel A moving oil painting.



I couldn't understand Aschenbach's love. At that time, I just thought that the two people had not exchanged a word of language from beginning to end. Tazio was a beautiful stranger to him, but he said that he loved him. he. This subverts my understanding. On the way home, I seem to have figured out a little more. The arts that composers, painters, and sculptors pursue are actually pure beauty. Beauty may be superficial, but it also highlights the singleness of purpose. "Just because of beauty, just because of beauty, I am willing to give in." Aschenbach's pursuit of beauty, his love for Tazio's close worship, he did not allow himself to have a little blasphemous thought. He is willing to give his life to stay in this dying city just to see him one more time...



Maybe because of cultural differences, maybe because I don't know enough about this era, this movie may contain a lot, a lot of obscurity, but I can only I am a little ashamed to understand the most obvious things. The film has been around for a long time, there are no turbulent plots, no earth-shattering events, more like a slightly literary autobiography, but among the many films, it slowly settles, and it seems that it does not care how many people are there. Paying attention to it, it is enough for me to retain the beauty of that moment at that time.

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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.