The translated name of "Mozart" is not true, because it is not a biographical film faithful to the real experience of the characters, but more like a fictional work borrowed from real history and connected with imagination (but if Mozart was buried in hastily after his death) The fascinating ending of the public spiritual position has been widely circulated as part of his public image construction). In addition, Mozart's story was told by a court musician, Salieri, so the narrator's perspective was restricted on the basis of the unreliable historical text. At the same time, Mozart's jealous and admirer Salieri's narrative in his later years is used to construct his life, not only avoids the boring and trivial trivialities, but his image becomes more vivid in Salieri's painful struggle.
Salieri's character setting is far more than just a tool for the construction of Mozart's image. Some characteristics of Mozart's image are highlighted in his selection narrative, and thus the character as a typical image is established. However, while gaining distinctive typicality, he loses the ambiguity of the deep soul. Mozart's image is fixed from the moment of its debut, or it is not a sporty complement to the main character's image through subsequent plots, but just constantly strengthens the image that has been established before this. Salieri, on the contrary, can clearly see his spiritual struggle and the tension between good and evil, and his image is gradually fuller in the plot and narrative advancement of the movement.
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Before analyzing Salieri, let’s focus on Mozart’s father. My father didn't really appear in the movie much, but he played a very important symbolic role. When his father first appeared on Mozart's European tour, he contrasted with Salieri's rude father who didn't understand music. The second time was when Mozart finally got rid of his father's bondage and got married early against his father. The third time was when my father came to Vienna. The fourth time and the last time the father himself appeared, his father quarreled with Steins for rejecting the maid sent by Salieri anonymously, and finally left Vienna and returned to his hometown.
The first appearance is the majestic father's full control of Mozart, or the repression of patriarchy. Taking the marriage as the event, Mozart thought he could finally walk out of his father's shadow and happily sent a letter to his father. Father came to Vienna, especially the scene where he stood on the stairs and hugged Mozart with his black cloak, which was very symbolic. What Mozart showed was a natural yearning for a divine father, and he hurriedly used various behaviors to please him. The incident of using the wedding as the "murder of the father" failed. For the fourth time, the father's actions as a defender failed and "runaway", and Salieri's intervention (maid) began to penetrate. The mental effort to "murder the father" failed, and even after the physical death of his father, the shadow remained.
The dead general in the opera "Don Giovanni", "He awakened his father and accused his son in front of the world." (Salieri) Salieri's last act was to imitate his father's clothes, like a ghost that has not disappeared. .
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In addition to Salieri's narration in his later years, the film can be roughly divided into three parts. The first part is the first ninety minutes. Salieri's changes at this stage can be seen in his prayers to God. When he was a child, Salieri went to church with his father. His father was praying for a prosperous business, but he was meditating, "God, make me a great composer, let me praise your glory through music, and I can also be glorified for it. Dear God, made me famous and immortal. Even after my death, everyone praised my music. In return, I would like to dedicate my chastity, my efforts, my humility and every moment of my life. ."
Mozart came to Vienna, Salieri wrote a welcome song for him, thank God after finishing writing.
Salieri was shocked after receiving Mozart's return. "All I want is to sing praises to God. He gave me this desire, but he made me dumb. Why? If I don’t want me to praise with music, why give me desire? There is this innate desire, but not Give me talent."
After the heart of Salieri's beloved woman was occupied by Mozart, he prayed to God to let him go. "What is God's intention? Is it testing me? Want me to understand the meaning of forgiveness, no matter how painful I am not to attack? Why did Mozart come to test me, my heart is full of hatred for him, the first in my life There was a cruel idea once."
Before Mozart’s wife Steins came to Salieri’s residence at night, Salieri prayed, “Dear God, give me the ability to write real music and let me know that you still care for me.”
"From then on, we are not at odds, because you have chosen an arrogant, pornographic, nasty, and childish boy as your tool. The reward given to me is only to allow me to understand his talent. Because you are unfair and unkind, I reject you. . I swear, I will do my best to harm him, I will destroy your tools."
The second part is from ninety minutes to one hundred and twenty minutes, and Salieri sends a maid to start the operation. The third part is the death of Mozart's father until his own death. Salieri put on Mozart's father's clothes to order Mozart to write "Requiem". "Finally, the truly beautiful, deep and passionate music written by Salieri was played at Mozart's funeral. Salieri was finally called by God. God was forced to listen and there was no power to stop it. Finally, I could finally. Make fun of him."
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It can be clearly seen that in addition to the superficial Mozart story, there is also a hidden main narrative of Salieri. I call this narrative the story of Salieri as the Messiah. This is called the "Messiah of Messiah".
Unlike the incarnation of Jesus Christ who was with God before the creation of the world, Salieri, as the "Mediocre Messiah", was not gifted, but self-inflicted or God was "appointed" in another form. The "Savior". This is reflected in his tense relationship with God. When he was young, he prayed to be a musician. Soon his father choked to death during the meal, and he was able to fulfill his wish. But after seeing Mozart, he was ignorant of Mozart's amazing genius and found that his mediocrity began to blame God for only giving desires and not talents, so he could only struggle between the two. His relationship with God is not Jesus Christ-like, but is always struggling. "Your benevolent God would rather destroy his favorite than let mediocre people share a part of the glory. He killed Mozart, but kept me alive and tortured me for 32 years. I slowly saw myself disappear, My music disappeared until no one was playing it." The revelation that God came to him was Mozart, allowing him to understand his mediocrity, but there was no way to escape.
Mozart embarrassed him in front of the emperor and took away the heart of his beloved woman. "That's God. He makes fun of me through ridiculous laughter and shows my mediocrity to everyone." He has always been in the dichotomy between genius and mediocrity. In the tension, and urgently need relief and salvation. God provides revelation but not salvation, and can only rely on himself. After Mozart's death, he still had to endure the torture of "banality" and watched his music gradually disappear. His road of revenge is a road of "salvation", suffering for the "banal evil" of mankind.
After Salieri's painful suffering, the banal evil of the world was introduced into the revelation, and Salieri dedicated his life on the "Road of Revenge". At the end of the film, Salieri gave a grand Mass to all the mediocre people, and Salieri, who sacrificed his life in a bloody way, once again dedicated to all mediocrities in a bloodless way. This dedication is indeed atonement.
Salieri, who is not the Messiah of all human beings, but only the "Messiah of Messiah," confronts Jesus as the Messiah and completes a scrutiny of the human spirit.
I represent the mediocre people in the world, I am their hero, and I am their patron saint. There are mediocre people everywhere, I forgive your sins, and I forgive your sins.
Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. Lord, please grant them eternal rest and let the eternal light shine on them.
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