When I wonder how that fascination arose, Höller talks about entomology being a safe surrogate for his real life-long passion, which is songbirds.
Plato described it as the contradictory feelings of repulsion and fascination that arise when a dead body is viewed by the living.
My own fascination with death arose after the unexpected and tragic demise of a dear friend.
However, this is not the reason for the curious fascination of the photograph; that arises from the fact that, in the case of a beloved film, we are all the stars' doubles.
Accordingly, much of the perverse energy of "Kill Bill" arises from his near-maniacal fascination with her.
This did not mean I chose to reject the audience's involvement, but that I wanted that involvement to arise through fascination with a complex and dazzling object observable under glass, rather than through more conventional theatrical empathy.
The feeling may be heightened by his frequent use of telephoto lenses (which compress the depth of field), but it doesn't arise from that technique — it arises instead from the way Truffaut conjures the sense of fear and fascination, of irresistible attraction even in the face of self-destruction.
Each partakes of the other, and Vittorio's fascination with Kate's little circus may arise from his intuition that its members have an especially acute and eccentric understanding of the sometimes painful, sometimes absurd collisions between theater and reality.
Pakistan had, in any case, exerted a fascination upon me throughout my foreign schooling which arose not only from intense nostalgia but also from my divided identity, my sense of being perhaps more like my American mother than like my Pakistani father, aware even as a child that I observed the place from a remove.
There's an inherent fascination with the lives and doings of great artists, arising from the accurate intuition that the work and the life are continuous — that there's no real boundary between them, that the work is a crystallization of the life, and that the life is itself an uncaptured creation and a source of wisdom, insight, and emotion.
