"Always is a dreadful word." This film is dominated by a devil's advocate. One begins to believe Oscar actually likes principles better than persons, and persons without principle best of all. In one short speech he fausts Dorian with any number of cynical aphorisms: "There's no such thing as a good influence; all influence is immoral. The purpose of life is self-development."
"We suffer for what the gods give us...youth is the one thing worth having. What the gods give they quickly take away. The gods are jealous of you... "The world is yours for a season; it would be tragic if you realized too late..every impule that we resist broods in the mind...Caprice lasts a little longer than life-long pasion."
When we remember the attitude his society had towards Oscar's 'nature', one can begin understand his cynicism in declaing that "being natural is simply a pose." He held out some hope for redemption through aesthetics. "There's nothing that can cuer the sould but the senses." And vice versa.
"We suffer for what the gods give us...youth is the one thing worth having. What the gods give they quickly take away. The gods are jealous of you... "The world is yours for a season; it would be tragic if you realized too late..every impule that we resist broods in the mind...Caprice lasts a little longer than life-long pasion."
When we remember the attitude his society had towards Oscar's 'nature', one can begin understand his cynicism in declaing that "being natural is simply a pose." He held out some hope for redemption through aesthetics. "There's nothing that can cuer the sould but the senses." And vice versa.
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