Amadeus
<Amadeus> pointed out the side effect of guilty and explained how it influenced lives of both main characters, Salieri and Mozart. Guilty leads Mozart, a young talented musician eventually died while tried to mend his guilty towards death of his father; Salieri, a respected court composer eventually trapped in lunatic asylum due to guilty of pushed Mozart towards death. Why both of these talented, respected musicians eventually end up this way? If they able to confront their guilt properly, will the ending be different?
In the view from Salieri, he is a talented court composer who deeply believes in God. He believes that his talent and desire towards music came from God and he believes that God has implanted the best talent in a modest virtue person. When he heard that famous Mozart was the music genius, Salieri believe that he is the gift from God. However, when he knew that Mozart was a boorish young man, he started to think that God is unfair and Mozart was sent to mock him. According to cognitive dissonance theory, when one's belief or expectation did not meet, he or she might distort his belief into a negative thinking. At this moment, confirmation bias occur. Whatever Mozart did, Salieri thinks that Mozart did not deserve. His jealousy impulsed him to suppress Mozart's development even though from the bottom of his heart, he was actually admired talents of Mozart. In other words, he is actually soulmate of Mozart's music. They might actually cooperate and help each other towards brighter future. But his jealousy covered his heart. In addition, religion actually provides ones to maintain positive and powerful. However, if people obsessed with their religion, their belief might be distorted and lead to negative side. Even though Mozart died eventually, but Salieri' guilt caused him become psychotic and suffered for a long time.
For Mozart, his music talent is rare and precious. Once, Mozart said to Majesty: “Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.” However, he considered as low self- monitoring as he only cares about his works no matter how others look him. Mozart has said: “I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.” Mozart ignored banned rules and others opinions as long as he thinks that the elements make his works perfect. In this movie, one of the biggest mistakes made by Mozart was trust Salieri is the one who truly helps him. He always tried to get help from Salieri when he felt helpless. Unlike his wife, Costanze more likely to be a reserved person when she thinks someone is not trustable. Last but not least, this is the crucial point that lead Mozart to death. Salieri knew that Mozart was guilty towards his father death, he used this emotion to ask Mozart wrote the death requiem. Guilt may be a hidden cause that lead to depression or anxiety. Mozart felt extreme stress and couldn't sleep well while writing the death requiem. This stress suffered him physically and psychologically then eventually lead him to death.
To conclude this movie by Mozart words,
To conclude this movie by Mozart words,
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
If Salieri can treasure Mozart's talent....
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