视频简介
根据霍桑同名短篇小说集改编，纳撒尼尔·霍桑（Nathaniel Hawthorne，1804年7月4日—1864年5月19日），19世纪前半期美国最伟大的小说家，毕业于美国缅因州博多因学院。霍桑的作品都是世界文学史上不可多得的经典名著，代表作品有短篇小说集《古宅青苔》、《重讲一遍的故事》等，长篇小说《红字》、《带七个尖顶的阁楼》、《福谷传奇》、《玉石人像》等。霍桑的短篇小说题材丰富，表现的时代也不同。但他最偏爱的另一大主题是揭示人性之"恶"。他把抽象的"恶"当作一切社会问题的根源。在他看来，一切社会问题，人与人之间的矛盾、犯罪现象等等的根源都不存在于社会物质生活当中，而存在于人性之"恶"。这一观点可以说基本来自加尔文教教义中"原罪"与"内在的堕落"等观念的影响。他认为要消灭外部世界的一切恶行，只有从人心做起，从扫除人之恶做起，声称:"内在世界一旦净化...。Herbert Vesely was one of the promises for a new German cinema already in the 50's, but after the 60's his star was already dimmed. He made a small number of films in the 70's and 80's, all non too good. This biography of Egon Schiele, one of the most important Austrian artists, is an example of the pretensions and emptiness of a Vesely-film of later date. The life of Schiele is presented here as a puzzle| well, Vesely thinks that Schiele's life was a puzzle: the core of the story is centered around the famous 1912 pornography trial and using this as base the film shows fragments of past and future. The problem is that it never becomes a unity and that the order of scenes and sequences seems to be at random: a cut-and-paste job that could have had any other result. Indeed, after seeing it twice I am almost convinced of it that a unsatisfactory linear thought-out film was changed into the puzzle in the editing room. Egon Schiele was an enigmatic man, but not a total puzzle, and this film does not bring him any closer. The films also fails in conveying the eroticism and meaning of the Schiele's paintings: the camera watches and glides over the models without any understanding of Schiele's intentions, we only see beautiful naked bodies. If interested in Schiele, you better buy a book with his works in stead.。
