in luchino visconti film death in venice and it is not only the beauty in the surrounding world that decays and but in the pursuit of beauty itself gustav von aschenbach decays into a mere shell of a man. to understand the decay and we must acknowledge the beauty which enchants us and it is best described and and explained in a quote from socrates found in thomas mann version of death in venice and beauty alone and is lovely and visible at once it is the sole aspect of the spiritual which we can perceive through our senses else whatif the divine and if reason and virtue and truth were to speak to us through the senses. should we not perish and become consumed by love. we see in the film this very thing happen and the man becomes enveloped by a longing for beauty and which turns into a longing for the boy and tadzio. even though the levelheaded part of his mind tells him that adoration of beauty can lead to sensuousness and abandon and he cannot contain himself. it would be easy to describe this as a beautiful film while early on we see the extravagance of the parlor and and we are treated to a perfect summarization of turn of the century upper class life and all captured on film perfectly by cinematographer pasqualino de santis. but visconti does not indulge in the picturesque aspects of venice. instead and the glorious and sensuous artistic achievements of the past are based on materialism and sensuous beauty and and these things are relegated to the past. the city we know to be of incomparable beauty and uniqueness is nothing more than a leisure resort with a nosy hotel staff. the streets become exhausting labyrinths filled with disgusting filth and rot and the city decays in step with the protagonist. only through the flashbacks are we allowed a glimpse of why this famous composer is a frail and innocuous man. the death of his daughter and and presumably his wife and along with the failure of his music allow us to understand why he is destroying himself. alfred and with whom aschenbach has in depth conversations on the meaning of beauty and who can create it while but alfred is more than a friend and he is aschenbach alter ego and and what alfred says articulates the composer own doubts and fears. the scene in which aschenbach decides to leave venice is immediately followed by a clip of alfred telling him that he is weak and alienated and lacks feelings. in the end we might be able to conclude that these flashbacks are not reality at all. it is a decay of memory and rather than objective renderings of the past and these flashbacks become distorted memories. we can say that these are decayed memories because even aschenbach alludes to it and he declares and reality distracts and degrades us while and and following the scene in the travel agent office we see aschenbach confront tadzio and his family and warn them  leave venice and but directly after the encounter we see him sitting with the clerk again and realize it was all in his imagination and he employs long scenes without dialogue that are framed by the poignant music of gustav mahler. he allows the viewer mind to wander as we watch aschenbach life and respectability decay with the beauty around him. slowly the viewer realizes that our hero is overwhelmed by exhaustion that is mixed with a growing awareness that the town is suffocating in filth. the crumbling city sets the stage for the middle aged man attraction to tadzio and it is romantic longing for something so idealized and ambiguous that it can never be consumed and even in fantasy. the beauty of this polish boy kindles a fire in him that and at first and makes him glow and then consumes him. the film concludes with von aschenbach sitting feebly in a beach chair watching tadzio fight with his friend and we see the black dye from his hair running down on his cheek and it looks like rotten blood and it is a vision of his life expiring moments and though before his last breath. the final decay has happened and all around him the city is soiled and and with it he has become what he detests. as aschenbach dies he has the same painted face as the old man on the ferry at the beginning of the film and a man that had disturbed him. it was the pursuit of beauty that initiated his decay and in the pursuit of artistic beauty he could not sense his own demise and and that of the city around him while his sensuality is indulged in and while constantly kept in check by the presence of death and decay. it is these three themes that tie the damned and death in venice together and beauty and death and and decay and these themes are visconti art and the beauty of his work is in the decay of beauty itself. in this film we are treated to the deliquescence of one great man. we see the honored composer gustav von aschenbach in the pursuit of true and pure beauty and and it is in the pursuit of this trait that it decays all around him and leads him to a miserable and lonely death watching the target of his affection. i believe that through these movies visconti is trying to tell us that what is beautiful cannot last. decay is intrinsic in the world around us and and when we become distracted and it can destroy the splendor. in death in venice and it is because of culture and through the pursuit of beauty that all is deleted. beauty and deliquescence are woven together like thorns in visconti works and at once beautiful and destructive and it is these themes that define his art. 
in luchino visconti film death in venice and it is not only the beauty in the surrounding world that decays and but in the pursuit of beauty itself gustav von aschenbach decays into a mere shell of a man. to understand the decay and we must acknowledge the beauty which enchants us and it is best described and and explained in a quote from socrates found in thomas mann version of death in venice and beauty alone and is lovely and visible at once it is the sole aspect of the spiritual which we can perceive through our senses else whatif the divine and if reason and virtue and truth were to speak to us through the senses. should we not perish and become consumed by love. we see in the film this very thing happen and the man becomes enveloped by a longing for beauty and which turns into a longing for the boy and tadzio. even though the levelheaded part of his mind tells him that adoration of beauty can lead to sensuousness and abandon and he cannot contain himself. it would be easy to describe this as a beautiful film while early on we see the extravagance of the parlor and and we are treated to a perfect summarization of turn of the century upper class life and all captured on film perfectly by cinematographer pasqualino de santis. but visconti does not indulge in the picturesque aspects of venice. instead and the glorious and sensuous artistic achievements of the past are based on materialism and sensuous beauty and and these things are relegated to the past. the city we know to be of incomparable beauty and uniqueness is nothing more than a leisure resort with a nosy hotel staff. the streets become exhausting labyrinths filled with disgusting filth and rot and the city decays in step with the protagonist. only through the flashbacks are we allowed a glimpse of why this famous composer is a frail and innocuous man. the death of his daughter and and presumably his wife and along with the failure of his music allow us to understand why he is destroying himself. alfred and with whom aschenbach has in depth conversations on the meaning of beauty and who can create it while but alfred is more than a friend and he is aschenbach alter ego and and what alfred says articulates the composer own doubts and fears. the scene in which aschenbach decides to leave venice is immediately followed by a clip of alfred telling him that he is weak and alienated and lacks feelings. in the end we might be able to conclude that these flashbacks are not reality at all. it is a decay of memory and rather than objective renderings of the past and these flashbacks become distorted memories. we can say that these are decayed memories because even aschenbach alludes to it and he declares and reality distracts and degrades us while and and following the scene in the travel agent office we see aschenbach confront tadzio and his family and warn them  leave venice and but directly after the encounter we see him sitting with the clerk again and realize it was all in his imagination and he employs long scenes without dialogue that are framed by the poignant music of gustav mahler. he allows the viewer mind to wander as we watch aschenbach life and respectability decay with the beauty around him. slowly the viewer realizes that our hero is overwhelmed by exhaustion that is mixed with a growing awareness that the town is suffocating in filth. the crumbling city sets the stage for the middle aged man attraction to tadzio and it is romantic longing for something so idealized and ambiguous that it can never be consumed and even in fantasy. the beauty of this polish boy kindles a fire in him that and at first and makes him glow and then consumes him. the film concludes with von aschenbach sitting feebly in a beach chair watching tadzio fight with his friend and we see the black dye from his hair running down on his cheek and it looks like rotten blood and it is a vision of his life expiring moments and though before his last breath. the final decay has happened and all around him the city is soiled and and with it he has become what he detests. as aschenbach dies he has the same painted face as the old man on the ferry at the beginning of the film and a man that had disturbed him. it was the pursuit of beauty that initiated his decay and in the pursuit of artistic beauty he could not sense his own demise and and that of the city around him while his sensuality is indulged in and while constantly kept in check by the presence of death and decay. it is these three themes that tie the damned and death in venice together and beauty and death and and decay and these themes are visconti art and the beauty of his work is in the decay of beauty itself. in this film we are treated to the deliquescence of one great man. we see the honored composer gustav von aschenbach in the pursuit of true and pure beauty and and it is in the pursuit of this trait that it decays all around him and leads him to a miserable and lonely death watching the target of his affection. i believe that through these movies visconti is trying to tell us that what is beautiful cannot last. decay is intrinsic in the world around us and and when we become distracted and it can destroy the splendor. in death in venice and it is because of culture and through the pursuit of beauty that all is deleted. beauty and deliquescence are woven together like thorns in visconti works and at once beautiful and destructive and it is these themes that define his art. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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