Mortal Mouse Composer Philip Glass takes on the last days of Walt Disney

摘要

As the curtain rises on the perfect American, a man clings, twisted and cowering, to the bars of his hospital bed. Music pulses, and an owl descends-a mere cartoon, but terrifying nonetheless-while a team of artists, almost menacing in their obsequiousness, sketch sets of circles that arrange themselves into a familiar mouselike form. The drawings function as a reveal of sorts: the man in the bed is Walt Disney, and he is dying. "Go away!" he cries. "I drift between knowing what is real and not real."