He who has never been moved to tears listening to Mozart, Beethoven, Bach and others should move on ...
For others, I tell them about Nathaniel Ayers, whose unusual but true story was brought to film by Joe Wright, and performed with skill by Jamie Foxx (Nathaniel Ayers) and Robert Downey Jr. (Steve Lopez).
Nathaniel Ayers lives only for and by music. It is especially in love with Ludwig Van Beethoven. His gifts for the cello allowed him to integrate a child's prestigious Juilliard School, which would have opened the door to a golden future. But today, adult, he lives in the street, Nathaniel has schizophrenia and the disease has gradually come to live on the margins of society. But music always accompanies it, with a violin that has only two strings (for novices, a violin has four strings: G, D, mid), he continues to play music body and soul and convey an emotion unique to passersby who will listen.
Among them, Steve Lopez, a journalist in search of inspiration, which sees first Nathaniel good about chronic. But gradually friendships develop between these two loners. And like any friend who respects himself, Steve is on the side of Nathaniel, which according to him is to leave the street, get treatment and return with a more conventional music. But Nathaniel asks for nothing and is happy, free, with music, with Beethoven ... How to explain to his new friend?
This film is disturbing for several reasons: the story of friendship between two men as dissimilar, this humbling offered by Nathaniel, grace music of Beethoven (itself also suffers from a severe disability).
It also poses questions, which had shaken my brain:
Can we force a patient to treat?
Are we happier sane but once aware of the materialistic and meurtière madness around us?
Do we still entitled to the difference in a society that tends to conformism and uniformity?
To this I reply:
I do not know.
I wonder sometimes.
I hope ...
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