in luchino visconti film death in venice and it be not only the beauty in the surrounding world that decay and but in the pursuit of beauty itself gustav von aschenbach decay into a mere shell of a man . to understand the decay and we must acknowledge the beauty which enchant u and it be best described and and explain in a quote from socrates find in thomas mann version of death in venice and beauty alone and be lovely and visible at once it be the sole aspect of the spiritual which we can perceive through our sens else what if the divine and if reason and virtue and truth be to speak to u through the sens . should we not perish and become consume by love . we see in the film this very thing happen and the man become envelop by a longing for beauty and which turn into a longing for the boy and tadzio . even though the levelheaded part of his mind tell him that adoration of beauty can lead to sensuousness and abandon and he can not contain himself . it would be easy to describe this a a beautiful film while early on we see the extravagance of the parlor and and we be treat to a perfect summarization of turn of the century upper class life and all capture on film perfectly by cinematographer pasqualino de santis . but visconti do not indulge in the picturesque aspect of venice . instead and the glorious and sensuous artistic achievement of the past be base on materialism and sensuous beauty and and these thing be relegate to the past . the city we know to be of incomparable beauty and uniqueness be nothing more than a leisure resort with a nosy hotel staff . the street become exhausting labyrinth fill with disgust filth and rot and the city decay in step with the protagonist . only through the flashback be we allow a glimpse of why this famous composer be a frail and innocuous man . the death of his daughter and and presumably his wife and along with the failure of his music allow u to understand why he be destroy himself . alfred and with whom aschenbach have in depth conversation on the meaning of beauty and who can create it while but alfred be more than a friend and he be aschenbach alter ego and and what alfred say articulate the composer own doubt and fear . the scene in which aschenbach decides to leave venice be immediately follow by a clip of alfred tell him that he be weak and alienated and lacks feeling . in the end we might be able to conclude that these flashback be not reality at all . it be a decay of memory and rather than objective rendering of the past and these flashback become distorted memory . we can say that these be decayed memory because even aschenbach alludes to it and he declare and reality distracts and degrades u while and and follow 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 sit with the clerk again and realize it be all in his imagination and he employ long scene without dialogue that be frame by the poignant music of gustav mahler . he allow the viewer mind to wander a we watch aschenbach life and respectability decay with the beauty around him . slowly the viewer realize that our hero be overwhelm by exhaustion that be mixed with a grow awareness that the town be suffocate in filth . the crumble city set the stage for the middle age man attraction to tadzio and it be romantic longing for something so idealized and ambiguous that it can never be consume and even in fantasy . the beauty of this polish boy kindle a fire in him that and at first and make him glow and then consume him . the film conclude with von aschenbach sit feebly in a beach chair watch tadzio fight with his friend and we see the black dye from his hair run down on his cheek and it look like rotten blood and it be a vision of his life expire moment and though before his last breath . the final decay have happen and all around him the city be soil and and with it he have become what he detest . a aschenbach die he have the same painted face a the old man on the ferry at the beginning of the film and a man that have disturb him . it be the pursuit of beauty that initiate 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 be indulge in and while constantly keep in check by the presence of death and decay . it be these three theme that tie the damned and death in venice together and beauty and death and and decay and these theme be visconti art and the beauty of his work be in the decay of beauty itself . in this film we be treat to the deliquescence of one great man . we see the honor composer gustav von aschenbach in the pursuit of true and pure beauty and and it be in the pursuit of this trait that it decay all around him and lead him to a miserable and lonely death watch the target of his affection . i believe that through these movie visconti be try to tell u that what be beautiful can not last . decay be intrinsic in the world around u and and when we become distracted and it can destroy the splendor . in death in venice and it be because of culture and through the pursuit of beauty that all be delete . beauty and deliquescence be weave together like thorn in visconti work and at once beautiful and destructive and it be these theme that define his art .