On Mar 26, 2007, at 10:41 AM, dhbailey wrote:
When the entire world (or practically the entire world) misses such a subtle point about the real point a work of art is trying to make, whose fault is it, the creator's or the public's?
I've neither read nor seen the play, but from watching the movie I thought the theme was pretty plain. Yes, it's about Mozart (and Salieri), but the point of following Mozart's life was to explore the idea of, as Daniel says, "a creator's unequal and inexplicable assignments of worldly gifts". I don't consider myself a subtle person, and I didn't think it was a subtle theme, even in the movie. It was also pretty plain in the movie that the whole thing was from Salieri's point of view, not Mozart's.
As for "love of God", I saw that as an attempt to massage the theme a bit for a nice symbolic tie-in with the title.
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