A recurring question
Mortality
3 entries in the collection.
Running underneath
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Amadeus1984
Salieri can recognize genius perfectly. What destroys him is believing Mozart's gift is God's personal judgment against him.
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Marie Antoinette2006
Versailles gives Marie everything except a self she can safely inhabit, so pleasure becomes refuge until history breaks through the walls.
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No Country for Old Men2007
Moss thinks skill can keep him ahead of consequence. Chigurh calls his choices fate, while Bell grows old trying to understand the violence.