Not a movie review

Darius 2022-03-20 09:01:09

First of all, this is not a film

review at all. The following is my personal advice for people who are going to see it. Please don't be misled by the Chinese translation of the name, and treat it as a biography.
In my opinion, the protagonist of the story is not Mozart, nor is it the Mozart in history. Why is it not directly called Mozart? Instead, I used the middle name, Amadeus, which means "God's darling" in Latin. I think it just borrowed the name Mozart, this life, to tell a story about another person who is not God's favorite.

After reading a lot of comments, those who are more familiar with the historical facts of Mozart, the more they are less absorbed in this movie, and are struggling with what this movie really wants to express. Please don't judge it with the eyes of a biographical movie, otherwise it would be unfair to this movie or to the historical Mozart.

By the way, I love its details the most, it can withstand repeated reading.

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Amadeus quotes

  • Antonio Salieri: My father, he did not care for music. When I told him how I wished I could be like Mozart, he would say; "Why? Do you want to be a trained monkey? Would you like me to drag you around Europe, doing tricks like a circus freak?"

    [Salieri chuckles ruefully]

    Antonio Salieri: How could I tell *him*... what music meant to me?

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: [to Emperor Joseph II] Sire, only opera can do this. In a play if more than one person speaks at the same time, it's just noise, no one can understand a word. But with opera, with music... with music you can have twenty individuals all talking at the same time, and it's not noise, it's a perfect harmony!