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If you've asked @Amores what she thinks of the movie, then you must be asking me the same question.

I think the movie makes some compelling arguments, and 'depictions' that I have experienced in what I may call 'real life'. The 'metaphor' is deep, the symbols beautiful. Like, the professor's spectacles being broken in Lisbon and the process of replacing them was of interest to me, and the more I think about it the more I create meaning. Layer after layer.

I have asked myself similar questions that have been asked in the movie. For example I remember writing a poem asking about when life really begins, or wondering what the greatest achievement one should have, at some point. I could even identify with Amadieu's graduation speech.

The movie has thus spurred more thought than most movies that I've watched before.

I wouldn't say your disappointment was 'simplistic'. And you know the girl was right, and brave in refusing to take Amadeus' offer. Only Amadeus couldn't live with the implications of her choice. But look at what the 'optician' does. He asks Raimund to stay in Lisbon if he wished to do so. Hers is a powerful role but it's hidden. It's like the movie has three levels. Amadeus' level, the Professor's level which adjusts reality to a better ending, then the viewers level whose reality is so open and amenable to learning.

I wonder if watching the movie again will open up insight and understanding. But lying on your right, and following your breath while replaying the movie in your mind might do wonders.

A lot of work is good, if there's pleasure in it, the rewards are high, and focus is on the mind and spirit, and body.

That's when you realize that you only get lemons because you sought them. And that life is about getting everything you ask for, even subconsciously.

Amadeus decided his fate when he formed his ideas. His grasp of mortality made him mortal, his disdain for dictatorship set him up for the disappointment that came. Had Estefania accepted his proposal then wouldn't he be the dictator in fact?

Amadeus didn't see this, Raimund saw more clearly with his new specs. I see even more clearly than Raimund. . . I for one sees immortality. And perfect love, where each moment counts even with death being defeated.

Who sends the lemons, and why?

@tycho, i wake up in the morning, get on with my day and somewhere along the day the lemons and oranges in lemon skin appear.

@kysse, join this philosophical train!

i think we will agree to disagree on the lemons and ignorance part

nevertheless, this is now a challenge for me to read Love's Labour Lost but sijui nitamaliza karne ipi!

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lemon and oranges are found in different settings ie;work,relationships and homes.

Those found in homes are not our choice.We learn how to live with them.
The ones found in workplaces are temporary, we learn how to accomodate without letting them influence our performance.
Now the ones we fall in love with or choose as friends are our own choice.
We learn to how to deal with them.

To become a well rounded person,one has to learn how to live with,accomodate and deal with both lemons and oranges.

Fact is,we cannot run away from them because they form part and parcel of the society.

A person isn't just how he/she looks, but is also the ideas and relations associated with him.

Bodies change, ideas, relations also change, it all depends on how you think.