Amadeus

Amadeus is a fictionalized biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.  The whole movie is focused on two main character who are Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Mozart.  Antonio Salieri who used to be the famous Italian composer in his country and was very popular in his country until the arrival of Mozart.  Mozart being a genius in composing a lot of well-known music and his success being a composer later become the obstacle for Salieri in his career life. This jealousy soon later drives him to have a plan to kills Mozart and to pass off a Requiem, which he had secretly commissioned from Mozart as his own, to be premiered at Mozart’s funeral.  

The whole story reminds me one three messages.  The first one is an idioms from Chinese that state that intelligent people like intelligence in others,and so good folk recognize the good in others.  This means that people who are same kind or have similar standard will tend to appreciate one and another capabilities as they seems themselves are outstanding from the norm.  For example, both Mozart and Salieri appreciate one and another talents and always seek help from one and another when they face problems.  Although in the movie, Salieri was jealous on the born talent that Mozart had, but he still admired and give recognition on Mozart’s piece of work.  There is even time when the other would not understand Mozart’s work, Salieri understand it and would try to explain it to himself.  Others than that, Salieri also attend all the stage play that conduct by Mozart as he believe that Mozart’s piece of work is the best.  Mozart being a genius in the field also appreciate Salieri and always seek help from him when he faced difficulty in writing a good stage play.  He believed on himself that he is the best composer but he will not denied that Salieri had the talent in him as well.  

Aside from that, the movie also portrayed another important element which is a great man cannot brook a rival.  This states that there is unlikely that there are two strongest person staying in a field together.  This is being portrayed in the movie when Salieri started his planning to kill Mozart as he believe that Mozart will take over his place soon if he continue to grow and he will become the history.  Usually when Greek meets Greek then comes the tug-of-war; however, Mozart still believes in Salieri that lead him to get tricked and soon he passed away due to exhaustion.  Salieri always had this thought on why both Mozart and him need to born in this same era.  If both of them are born in different era, maybe the story would be different as both of them can be the legend in their perspective era without killing one and another.  

Lastly, the movie told me on another important element is that what comes around goes around.  This is being portrayed in the movie when Salieri killed Mozart, he should be the lead in the field and well-known by people.  However, in fact, he end up staying in the psychiatric hospital and his piece of work is no longer being remembered by people.  This reminds me on the teaching in Buddhism that talks about karma where people will get good return if do good things and vice versa.  This teaching is parallel with my own belief where I believe that if the things tend to belong to me, no matter what happen, it will come back to me; however, if the things are not belong to me, no matter what have I done to withhold it, it will still leave.  This is what I believe in as the religion teaching and as well as my dad teach me since I was young.  

In a conclusion, this movie had portrayed a lot of morality that people who had seen it may reminds us again.  This is because I understand that people may know the morality as we had learn since we are young but we tends to forget to practice it as the day pass by.  By showing this morality in the movie, it reminds the audience once again not to forget what we had learn in the past.