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And? Have you read it now?

@@drazat11 slacker here: Soooo what had happened was...

@@leeluv96 And? Have you read it now?

@@mitvulf Thank you for the kick in the pants. I haven't read it AND I forgot all about it. I guess I gotta get on that now.

@@leeluv96 You’re very welcome.

roy schieder was the replacement- only done because the US was going to be the only market to show the movie, the narrator in this was the original/

@@FunkFight1 No, it Leonard Shrader after lot's of lawsuits. Don't test

I think it’s that the golden pavilion is eternal beauty rather than love. Beauty is obviously what his thing is (like every Mishima book) and what helped him accept his complex relationship w it his whole life is the fact that it fades away- so then having to deal with beauty that’s eternal. The only way he can cope is by destroying it

@@fragrantsocks9088 r u implying the temple dont love him back? did u read the book..

@@tristecherie7464 I haven't... but I believe that watching this movie was good enough to understand Mishima's point on beauty and love (and sex) They are all combined in a mind that cannot get one or the other.

​@cheeseandonions9558 i think its a fantastic movie and a great introduction/overview to 'Mishima', but it is not enough on its own. Honestly, I don't even think his literature is enough to understand him. It's only when considering biographical accounts of the man and his large body of essays that you start to get an idea of where he was coming from, and even then much remains a mystery.

​@@tristecherie7464The ephemeral nature of beauty is definetly a big theme in Mishima i agree. There is a totalitarian idealism and iconoclasm in his attitude towards beauty though, based on a sort of greco-roman, proto-fascist aesthetic which is quite unique and not typically japanese. Beauty is the dialectical opposite of ugliness. One exists to magnify the other. Without beauty there is no ugly, and vice versa. In this sense beauty is oppressive, and can only be overcome by an ascent to it or the destruction of it. Mishima toys with both of these themes throughout his work, and they are in a sense synonmyous, since an ascent to beauty forshadows its ultimate decay. The golden pavillion is so eternally and transcendentally beautiful that it cannot be achieved nor sustained by any mortal. No man can live in the shadow of such a thing without total subservience to it or rebellion against it.

Cheese and Onions I believe it is

It is. It was. And it will always be.

Sadly this is sort of the truth

No, I think you misunderstood. From what we can see within the novel, although Mizoguchi was sure of his philosophy that the women loved him purely because of his deformity, however, in a sentence uttered by one of his former girlfriends it is revealed that this is not strictly true and that there is a beauty within him that he is not even aware of himself and therefore his philosophy isn't exactly correct.

@@woodman2855 ever heard of a run-on?

How could you not like it

to be fair- he made this before he repeated himself in other things. He had done a similar things in Koyaanisqaatsi, but that's all. and very few had seen it. But I suspect you prefer marvel scores or mothersbaugh. Not repititive at all, right? At least this is beautiful no matter how many times he interpolates it.

I could listen to this till the end of time and still find the beauty in it. But each to their own.

How can you be so deaf 😢

Philip Glass - Temple of the Golden Pavilion

This is the most thrilling and compelling of the excerpts from Mishima's books.

@@Khayyam-vg9fw can you please explain it, I'm pretty stupid and I haven't read the book

@@canti7951 If you're that stupid you won't understand the explanation.

@@canti7951 Read the book, I recommend it

@@Khayyam-vg9fw I don't even know the context and you're expecting me to understand a cheesy one liner?

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