My Reflection on Amadeus

Reflection about Amadeus

In the movie “Amadeus”, we learn the story of Mozart, one of the most known and talented pianist and composer of all times. But his story is seen by the point of view of Salieri, one other pianist/composer of Mozart’s time.

Mozart lived in the 18^th century, the century of the intellectual movement Enlightenment. In this time period, intellectual people, (philosophes, scientists,…) began to think by themselves, also by the scientific method. But for most people, the most important was God.

For Salieri, Mozart’s talent in music, is directly given by God, he even says that his music is the “voice of God”. At the beginning of the movie, Salieri is always praying God to give him the inspiration to write beautiful music, but after he meets Mozart, (who is really obscene and not a good Christian, for Salieri’s opinion), Salieri begins to think that God is against him and that he is with Mozart. He even burns a statue of Jesus, which at that time would probably have been punished by death.

Amadeus is a movie about jealousy, I already said that Salieri was jealous of God’s preference for Mozart, but he becomes even more envious when he discovers that the woman whom he desires, an opera singer, loves Mozart. After that, he will try to make Mozart’s life as difficult as possible.

The 18^th century is a century where art and music in general are important but particularly operas. Mozart is a perfect example of artist, he is innovative, (he does things that have never been done), he is provocative and of course, he is a brilliant composer and piano player.

My impression of this movie is very good, it represents well that artists and in this case composers have to work very hard to create music. It is also funny to see that people almost only pray God for their own well-behaved. In Salieri’s case, it is very strange, because he thinks that God is against him, because Mozart is a better composer than him, but Salieri’s life’s quality is far away from being bad, he also wrote operas and beautiful music, but he is persuaded that Mozart is better than him. If Mozart hadn’t existed, Salieri would have been happy during is whole life with his lifestyle.