the sheer absurdity of le bien qui fait mal can never be overstated. the fact that salieri has a classical music-induced homoerotic bdsm hallucination in front of god the audience and everyone for three full minutes. the fact that his relationship with mozart, as far as is known, wasn't actually SUPPOSED to be gay. the fact that it became an ensemble song on the soundtrack so everyone gets to sing about wanting mozart('s music) carnally despite the song being a salieri solo. can i redirect your attention to the fact that they decided the best way to convey salieri's jealousy of mozart's compositional abilities was a three-minute bdsm extended metaphor. this is his FIRST song. he has BARELY been introduced as a character. we don't know anything about his psyche but we do know he wants mozart to [redacted] [redacted] [redacted]
