Amedues Review

The movie starts with Salieri in an insane asylum telling the story of why he doesn’t want to confess his sins to a priest, ultimately to God. He goes into the story of his life and Mozart’s part in it. The time period portrayed is the classical period. When Emperors and Kings ruled the land, and when most of all music was commissioned by them. I thought the manner in which the director chose to unfold the plot was classic. S

o many great movies are given as flashbacks. It is a chance to see their perspective now and the perspective of which they had back then. Which in this case we were able to see just the time when Salieri lost his faith and how in present day he is just the same, if not more bitter. (Talking to everyone how he is now the ruler of mediocrity.) The basic characters were Mozart, Salieri, Emperor, Mozart’s wife, his father, and the noblemen. Some of the minor characters were Mozart’s buddy “the actor”, friends, his son, Mother-in-law, the peasant servant, and we mustn’t forget, the mask of his dead father (Salieri). I call them minor actors because of the time they were in the film, but their impact was nothing to be overlooked. For example, his actor buddy represented goodness and wholeness the path that maybe Mozart should have taken. While his son was there to remind him in a way of his father, showing his son all the love in the world. His mother-in-law served as inspiration for the opera he produced in Germany, Vaudeville. The most important character towards the end was the masked man requesting the Requiem Mass, which served as metaphorical death.

The main thing that I learned about the music from the classical period was that it was clear and simple. It was a much different from the Baroque era, in that the music was easy to understand and interpret. During the movie I felt the mood that the music wanted to depict. It didn’t leave too much to the imagination in that it was straight forward, but it still provided powerful imagery. Classical music really fluctuates the mood, in that it can tells a story of something with different emotions. It could start with a nice day in a meadow and turn up being cloudy with your wife dying. It seems to me also that these tunes are the easiest to remember, maybe because of the repeating of themes and not very differing variations. These songs seem to be ones that you could whistle or hum along to. All in all, classical music was light and graceful. So were the times, and that is what Music is “reflections of the times.”

From today’s standards I believe society back then wasn’t fair to most people including Mozart. According to our 1776 constitution. During the classical time period I can see how he was a bit of a wild man for the patronage system, almost a revolutionary. Deciding not to work entirely for a patron was not very common. In that right I believe it was Mozart who caused his own problems, by choice. He was a relative

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