I wonder if I'm the only person who does not enjoy this film because she finds Salieri's destructiveness so depressing.
def been in onesided rivalries which I had no interest in nurturing; the movie brings back bad memories. poor, put-upon mozart. I sincerely hope that this film is less truth than fiction.
There are sad and dark themes in the movie but I wouldn't say they stop me from enjoying it. There are some thought-provoking , funny and charming moments as well.
But yeah , the last 30 minutes or so the movie becomes damn depressing.
Yeah I found the lead guy's machinations depressing, too. I went into this movie expecting Mozart to be annoying and all...but really found him likable and sympathetic, and the way this maudlin Salieri guy sabotaged his life out of pure resentment and jealousy was hard to watch.
I also agree, I hope all that was just embellished for the movie.
yes hard to watch but no, not too depressing but too disgusting.
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I love how deliciously cynical the ending is. The priests sits crying and distraught over the realization that Salieri drove one of the greatest geniuses in history to his death.
It seems that the geniuses are gone too soon, and all that we are left with is bitter mediocrity.
~ I'm a 21st century man and I don't wanna be here.
I found more depressing the fact that the author of this play just picked out of history a composer that at the time was as well respected and influential as Mozart, and who did not bear any resentment towards Mozart, and used his name for a frankly pathetic character full of hate. Reading Wikipedia it seems in fact that it was the young Mozart and his father who were jealous of Salieri at the time because he was the favourite of the Emperor...
And yes, the depiction of Mozart is depressing as well.
But I do not like in general "personal reinterpretations" of real people. I would have preferred if the characters in the film were completely fictional.
Well, it wasn't quite a random selection; Shaffer based his fiction on what seems to be a true story, that in his old age Salieri claimed that he had been responsible for Mozart's death. This appears, so we're told, in one of Beethoven's 'conversation books' - his visitors' books, where people wrote down items of gossip and interest for him, since his deafness meant he couldn't converse in the normal way. That's more depressing, if you like.
shareI'm watching this movie in stages on DVD. I think that I would find it very depressing to watch it in one sitting. I find Salieri's attitude very strange, and difficult to understand.
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