"Atypical Film/Book Review" Art and Life

The Immortal Truth: A Lifetime of Perseverance
Veteran actor Gary Oldman portrays the story of the life of musical giant Beethoven.
In the film, Beethoven asks a friend what the meaning of music is, and he replies that it is to convey the spirit of the musician. Beethoven rejects this answer, saying that music, he says, simply conveys the emotions of the author at that time and place.
In this conversation, the musical work they are discussing is The Tempest, and the interesting thing is that the explanation here, is not only simple but clear. Beethoven tells Schindler straightforwardly what he is trying to convey: that he was once on his way to a date when he was stopped by a storm and he was in a great hurry. In this way it is also implied that Beethoven wrote the Tempest for true love.
Beethoven's music is full of emotions, of pathetic human anger, despair and love, and it has unspeakable power for me as a fellow human being; it will shatter your memories, it will draw out the parts of you that are most similar to Beethoven, as if you were to go through a violent storm right now, and a lost love that no one knows about.
Beethoven's letter in the film is like a beautiful poem, expressing something so similar to his music.
You can't help but remember his romantic murmur of
How much you love me,
I love you more.
Never hide yourself from me.
Beethoven's music arrives at the very essence of human nature: a mixture of love and hate, a paradoxical absurdity. Many critics have overlooked his rage and the true beauty that stirred in his mad, full-bodied emotions because they are not surrounded by the divinity of Bach's or Mozart's notes, or because of his indistinguishable humanity from himself.
Beethoven is a magnified version of us, an unbeatable giant, and the perfect interpreter of our emotions.
The Moon and Sixpence: the search for "everything" abandoned
Introduction.
"The ground was full of sixpences, but he looked up and saw the moon." Charles, a banker, is middle-aged and successful when he abruptly abandons his wife and children to pursue his secret dream of painting. He knows that every human identity is a form of self-abduction, and that the only way to freedom is through loss. In a foreign country, poor and sick, he became more and more determined to his dream. I must paint, he says, like a drowning man who must struggle. After a series of strange encounters, he arrived on an isolated island in the South Pacific, married a local girl and had children, and managed to create a series of amazing masterpieces. It was then that he was struck down by a terminal illness and blindness, and before he died, he made a decision that shocked everyone ...... The world is long and fleeting, some see the dust, some see the stars. Charles was the man who spent his life chasing the stars.
The famous novel about the pursuit of a dream and the shackles of reality has been accused of being "wrong". The polarised portrayal of the main character in the novel has caused many people to resent it. The main character, Charles, is seen by some readers as a man who persists in pursuing his dreams, hitting a sore spot and fulfilling the expectations of countless others. But his so-called "renunciation of the world" does not seem to be comparable to the dedication of true artists. The novel was, and still is, certainly thought-provoking and resonant, but in today's mindset, when considered alongside a film like Immortal Truth, a different understanding of art and life, of dreams and reality, may emerge.