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because it's all done in period costume
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so you don't know that anything has really changed.
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It's a wonderful movie.
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It's based on two premises:
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One,
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what does mediocrity do in the face of absolute genius?
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And two, isn't it ironic,
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isn't it somehow unfair,
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that this God-given talent,
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this great creature,
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comes to earth in the form of this sort of childish lout,
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i.E., Mozart?