Arrrgh.

So, Saturday Mom put in Amadeus, or whatever it’s called, the movie where Mozart dies, into the DVD player.  She had been reading books about Salieri and/or Mozart, and she felt she had to watch the movie.  Now, I had never seen this movie before, but Mom did tell me something about it.  She told me how the movie portrayed Salieri as being a once-famous composer who was quickly fading from the public eye when Mozart came about, and became so jealous that he Rejected God, and claimed that he and God were now enemies.

In reality, however, Salieri didn’t really think about Mozart much, because his fame was never jeopordized by Mozart until he was nearly dead.  Mozart actually didn’t become the famous composer he is today until he died.  Futhermore, Salieri never turned his back on God, and actually became more religious the older he became.

When I first heard of the inaccuracy of this movie, it generated nothing more than a simple roll of my eyes.  You see, I assumed that the movie portrayed Salieri as being sort of the villain, and the whole rejecting God bit would be sort of a subplot.

Well…As I mentioned before, she put the movie in Saturday.  She had audio commentary on, so I didn’t hear much, but she also had the subtitles to the movie on, as well (No, nobody in this family is deaf, we just like to have the subtitles on because Baby has a tendency to talk over the movie.  We don’t even think about it anymore, really.) so I did get to catch the basic plot.

See the above title.  It will tell you exactly how I feel about it.

As it turns out, Salieri is actually portrayed as the very sympathetic tragic hero throughout the movie.  Plus, far from being a subplot, the rejecting God bit turns out to be the main plot of the entire movie.  The story is told by Salieri to a priest, whom he constantly mocks throughout the entire tale for believing in a merciful God.  The priest appears to not be able to come up with an answer to any of Salieri’s questions about God’s motives, and seems to be questioning his own faith by the end of the movie.  Salieri’s perspective is never refuted throughout the entire movie.

I used to think that the decision to portray Salieri as a blasphemer was simply a stupid way of adding drama to the story.  Now, after seeing it, I can hardly stand to have this trash in the house.  This is perhaps the most anti-Christian movie I have ever seen in my entire life.  And I’ve seen V for Vendetta.

Not only that, but the story is based entirely on lies.  Not half-truths, not historical innaccuracies, lies.

So, that had me pretty upset.  Then I overheard Chao and Gameboy talking about how the obviously complex CGI in the 2007 Transformers movie was still beaten out by what’s generally regarded as fake polar bears in The Golden Compass.  I realize that it’s incredibly old news, but I had never heard it before, as I didn’t follow the Oscars, Golden Globes, and whatever other stupid “we know more about movies than the general public” awards they have.

Anyway, my first thougt was WHY THE @#$%ING HELL DID THEY DO THAT?!  Of course, there’s only one answer: they enjoyed Christianity being portrayed as the ultimate evil.  Of course, when four Muslim extremists fly planes into various inhabited public areas, we have to do our best to not hate Muslims, and realize that they were extremists.  However, Christians are obviously all villains for not supporting homosexuality, abortion, etc.

So, now I was downright pissed.

That night, when I was praying to God, I honestly considered praying for the end of the world.  I had never, ever thougt about doing that before.  I was actually scaring myself.

So, I’m here to tell you hate evil and injustice.  But don’t hate people.

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