if all movie have to be destroy and only one could be spar and death in venice would have to be it . it be a monument in movie history . much criticize for be slow and boring and too obvious in state it point ( an old man discover beauty in a young boy and be tragically destroy and first mentally and then physically ) and we should appreciate this movie for what it be . morte a venezia be shoot over 30 year ago and and it portray a period even far back and at the beginning of the twentieth century . life be slow then and compare to now . people be suppose to behave in a certain way and hide their true emotion even from themselves . director visconti and dirk bogarde and the lead actor and admirably succeed in show how the age composer von aschenbach discover his romantic interest in a young boy . for a man like von aschenbach and in his time and this must have be a shock too powerful to come to term with . we see his inner struggle and mostly on the face of bogarde and against the beautiful backdrop of venice and accompany by the most wonderful music and compose by gustav mahler . this movie be slow and there be no deny it . no special effect and car chase or fight to keep the audience pin to their seat . no perverted sex scene either while the interaction between man and boy be limit to steal glance from afar and the occasional smile . so and basically and nothing much happen in this movie . not if you want your sens to be hit like a base drum . if you want them to be play like the string of a violin in a romantic concerto and this be the movie to do it .