Amadeus

The film, Amadeus, written by Peter Shaffer and directed by Milos Forman, is a not only an Academy Award winning film, but is also a surprisingly accurate portrayal of Mozart’s life. Antonio Salieri was a contemporary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791). An accomplished musician, Salieri competed with Mozart for recognition and employment. This film is a fictional exploration of how Salieri might have felt when he realized that despite all his hard work, talent, and popularity at the time, he could not hope to approach Mozart's genius. Driven out of his mind by jealously, Salieri is confined to an insane asylum, and fantasizes that he has killed Mozart. "Amadeus" provides a thoughtful exploration of an existential and moral dilemma.

 Moral Ethical Emphasis

In the light of ethical principle of responsibility, Salieri's thinking flawed and responsible in Mozarts' encounters. Instead Salieri get jealous at Mozart's genius and being enemy with God that 'choose for Your instrument a boastful, lustful, smutty, infantile boy and give me for reward only the ability to recognize the incarnation'. Salieri could appreciate and persevere in his own music along with Mozart to learn from him and to improve self but instead he let jealousy covered up his eyes and speaks bad about Mozart in front of the royals and people. Salieri showed that he did not have clear thoughts before he act he did not think about the consequences, if he did not speaks bad about Mozart, Mozart could get few students and will not faced financial crisis and his wife wouldnt left him and he would not be alcoholic. Humility is the key but Salieri did not shows.

Salieri is a very religious person as he refers the music to the voice of God, but if he is really truly serving for God he should not have envy and betrayed Mozart. As Salieri described Mozart's music as the very voice of God, but instead he did not work along with Mozart as they are both the voice of God but Salieri think there should only be one and that is him he could not accept God make him witness the birth of Mozart that his music is nothing to compared with. If he is truly religious he will cared and never let jealousy covered his eyes, so he just want God to give him the gift of music but he never walk the path God wants him too. The creation of beauty by God should not be a competition.

Mozart in movie showed symptoms of personality or neuropsychology disorder, his rapid speech and catatonic movements has raised few questions relating to Tourette's Syndrome but research has found that gifted or extraordinary individuals especially in musical abilities shown suppression in mental and emotional in brain plasticity therefore in sensation, perceptual, imagination and movements will experienced heightened over excitabilities. 

In relation with Mozart's father, Leopald Mozart possess controlling and obsessive nature controlling and preoccupied with his son life and career has created certain amount of pressure and stress on Mozart and in addition to his environment, financially challenged and his abandonment of his wife has make him drink more than usual therefore he become alcoholic. His biology nature and environment nature as a gifted individual has make him vulnerable to stress and failure there he developed depression and loneliness. In addition to the problems, the death of his father has much impact on him and he is even afraid to compose the Requiem Mass because he is fear of his own death. His father death haunt him about his own death and as well the person he loved is gone left him alone in facing the world. The disintegration of him and his world happened after all the problems occurred but he feel helpless, all he ever did it just his piece of music, socially he is not good in relation with his genius, gifted child is not good in socializing. Mozart spend too much time asking questions regarding injustice, unfairness and morality but all this are written on his music and so majority people and the royals could not accept his 'socially inappropriate behaviours'. If he was born in a right culture, meeting the right people will his life be longer? Such great man that has died leaving us all in pain.