"Immortal True Love"
How to present Beethoven and Beethoven's music as a biopic is what the film really does.
I checked the information, Beethoven has no wife, no children. There was only one nephew, and this nephew was not a success, not only spent a lot of Beethoven's hard work, but also in turn made Beethoven half angry. Of course, as the biographer understood: Beethoven has his own love pursuit, but there is no result. Since he is a famous musician and celebrities, it is naturally easy to cross with those noble daughters, but also to waste. But it is always my luck, not my life.
The movie uses a rather lame but effective suspense: Beethoven is dead, and Schindler, a friend and secretary, wants to maintain his will, find Beethoven's sweetheart, and leave all the property to her. At the beginning, he looked for his noble lover, but because of the interference of the noble lover family, after all, the door was not right, so the father told his daughter that Beethoven had no talents and no longer created anything, so they set the game for him. Playing alone, seeing if he can still create, Beethoven fell into creation, and improvised a moving piece. However, the infected noble daughter ran out halfway and disturbed Beethoven’s creation. In addition, Beethoven was completely deaf and relied on the cover to "listen" to his own performance. This made him angry at his "secret being discovered." Because she couldn't hear her apology and love, she left in a hurry. She eventually passed on to an earl. Of course, this story is based on facts, and her counterpart is Giulietta Guiciadini. And that improvised piece is "Noctilucent".
The second object of suspicion was an aristocratic widow with a pair of children. Because she stood up bravely when everyone laughed at Beethoven (because he was deaf and couldn't direct, and the performance was a mess), she stood up bravely, went on stage to take his hand, and took him to her home. During the war, she suffered the pain of losing her son, and he composed music for her. Because she and Beethoven have similar personalities and also understand Beethoven's music, the two have also collaborated in concerts with anti-war themes. However, she is always only his comfort in the world, not true love. When Beethoven took his nephew and began to be indifferent to her, she discovered the problem. Then, on the one hand, Beethoven had no intention of creating because of his deafness. On the other hand, he focused on the training of his nephew. But unfortunately, the nephew has no talent and has a turbulent personality. He is more interested in joining the army than music.
Beethoven's brother died, but there is another brother alive (in the opening credit, he said that he has been taking care of his brother, so he deserves the inheritance). If the nephew is his only relative and he has no children himself, it is reasonable to put all love on the children. However, the movie gave another speculation. He bribed the judge and of course took advantage of his nephew's feelings for him to "rob" the child from his sister-in-law. Just because the child is actually his own!
Beethoven loves his sister-in-law, but his love and hatred are unknown to the world. Just like the suspense at the beginning, the film also buried a bigger suspense, that is, when Schindler first came into contact with Beethoven, Beethoven taught him a lesson:
Beethoven: Music is a terrible thing, what is it?
Schindler: I don't understand.
Beethoven: What is it going to do?
Schindler: It sublimates the human soul.
Beethoven: Nonsense, if you listen to the march, will your soul sublimate? No, you move forward; if you hear a waltz, you will dance; if you hear a hodgepodge, you will communicate; it directly leads people to the composer’s mental state. This is the power of musicians. The listener has no choice. It's like hypnotism. So, what was in my head when I wrote this? A man was trying hard to rendezvous with his lover, but his carriage broke in the rain and the wheels got stuck in the mud. She just waited silently. This is his anxious voice. This is how it happened... The music tells it, not what you did...
Who is that woman, he never told me, nor did I ask him. He made me look at the world in a whole new light.
In this dialogue, the musical work they discussed was "The Tempest", and what is interesting is that the explanation here is not only simple but also clear. Beethoven told Schindler bluntly that what he wanted to express was: He was once on the date of a date, met with a storm, and he was extremely anxious. This also implies that Beethoven wrote "The Tempest" for true love. And then his sister-in-law, Joanna, was introduced.
What's interesting is that when we watched a movie, the music clips from the movie, accompanied by Beethoven's explanation, seemed to fit in perfectly.
However, after looking up the information, I found that Beethoven’s "The Tempest" originated from Shakespeare’s testament-the last play. The theme of the play is that the Duke of Milan, Prospero, was taken from his brother Antonio to the title, and he was forced to take his daughter Miranda. And the magic book exiled to the desert island. Prospero dispatched the elves to call the wind and rain, and scraped the boats taken by the opponents Antonio, the King and the prince of Naples onto the deserted island, causing the wicked to be tortured, and after Antonio changed his past and wrongs, he forgave him and became his daughter and Naples. The marriage of the prince. Obviously, this has a similar plot to "Hamlet", but shows the spirit of humanism from another angle. The corresponding Beethoven, he was deprived of hearing, and Prospero was deprived of power, if it is interpreted as his acceptance and reconciliation of fate, it also makes sense. After all, how destiny treats us, we can only accept, only accepting can live comfortably and obtain happiness. Beethoven had a rough fate, but because he accepted the injustice of his fate, he was able to continue to create world-famous music.
Beethoven's music, after all, only he knows what to say. Is he talking about acceptance and reconciliation of fate, or is he talking about his own love experience. For us, we are indistinguishable. However, this interpretation of the film is not only reasonable, but also makes the overall film more consistent.
As revealed at the end, Beethoven and Joanna fell in love, and even had a child, and the two made an appointment to elope. But because of a storm on the road, Beethoven's carriage fell into the mud. He originally sent a love letter to Joanna first. Unfortunately, because she was pregnant and disgusted with the taste of the food, Joanna didn't notice the letter under the food and left in a hurry. And Beethoven just happened to brush shoulders with Joanna, who had hurriedly left. Then, both of them thought that the other had betrayed themselves, so they parted ways. Beethoven's younger brother fell in love with Joanna again and married him. But Beethoven knew that the child was his own. Therefore, this also explains his extraordinary love and sacrifice for his nephew (it is estimated that some scholars' research supports this conclusion, and the movie handles it in this way).
And Joanna is also with Beethoven's other lover, Treze de Brunswick in reality. They were secretly engaged, but they didn't get married in the end. And the beginning of the movie Schindler’s will comes from a letter that Beethoven once wrote to Trezer: "My angel, everything about me, my heart is full of things I can’t finish talking to you. When I think of you When I couldn’t receive my letter before Sunday, I couldn’t control my tears in sorrow. I love you like you love me, but much stronger. I can’t imagine that without you, I will face What kind of life."
However, in the movie, Beethoven and Joanna were forgiven at the end. Although Joanna hates Beethoven, she forgives him because of the "Ninth Symphony" (the fourth movement "Ode to Joy"). And this performance is not only a successful work after Beethoven’s deafness and his nephew’s departure, but also a work that won five applauses for the Vienna Concert Hall in history (the king can only receive three applauses). The film's treatment in this way is obviously to give Beethoven's love an end, although it is tragedy, it is forgiven before his death. It also shows the emotional world behind Beethoven's music: Destiny has abused me thousands of times, and I treat life as my first love.
The film uses artistic methods to string together and restore Beethoven's love experience as much as possible. It also uses three movements to show Beethoven's music creation process, as far as possible to let us feel the world behind his works. It should be said that sincerity was paid. However, I still cannot achieve my expectations. 2021/2/7
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