Eros E Tanatos -mario Salieri- — Xxx Italian Clas...

For the modern consumer of media, to understand Salieri is to see the ghost in the machine. Every time you watch a prestige drama where a sex scene is followed by a sudden act of violence—every time a villain is both sexually charismatic and lethally destructive—you are watching the Mario Salieri effect, filtered through the lenses of respectability.

To understand the film, one must understand the Freudian theory it references. Sigmund Freud posited that humans are driven by two opposing instincts: Eros e Tanatos -Mario Salieri- XXX ITALIAN Clas...