Musical is an amusing genre. It was not long ago when I began to be interested, and it was by the famous musical Les Miserables. Actually, there are notable differences between Les Miserables and Man of La Mancha. Les Miserables is consisted of music, mostly without common conversations, but for the case of the latter one, I suppose more than half of the musical is made of dialogue. Therefore, it became a chance to poder the identity of the genre called musical. The characters were having a common conversation at first, and after a while to find they were singing, I thought the similiarity of musical with reality.
This musical adopts an conspicuous method of story-within-a-story. Miguel de Servantes is a tex-collector, and he believed the national law confirming the equality of every countrymen, and attatched a sequester label on the door of a church. He was arrested of blesphamy and was waiting for inquistion inside a jail, where he met other prisoners, and he was again accused to the court of the prisoners. There, he was accused of being an idealist, being inflexible, and being an awful writer, so he was almost sentenced to be guilty. Right then, he suggests the prisoners to participate his play, named "Don Quixote". as a story within, Don Quixote is almost parallel with the plot of Don Quixote that we know well, except for a portion of details. The world is corrupted as ever, people make fun of Don Quixote as ever, and Don quixote, as ever, runs toward the unreachable ideal.
However, hear him now! We are bewildered. Who is right and who is wrong? Who is insane and who is sane? As Quixote said, "In a mad world, those who try to live straightly with sanity are crazy." Did you tell me to face the reality by itself? The Lord of La Mancha again says; "Reality is the foe of the truth!"
Indeed. Who can guarantee the sanity if the world is insane? People running toward the ideal should take the responsibility. "To dream the impossible dream. To fight the unbeatable foe. To bear with unbearable sorrow. To right the unrightable wrong. To reach the unreachable star." Those are our quests, our rights and our dreams. We have unreachable stars in our mind and it'll lead a revolution.
See, the result of the Lord of La Mancha. He was defeated by knight of the mirror. Really? Was it knight of the mirror, who actually defeated Don Quixote? He was defeated by humself. The conceptual 'I' and the real 'I' are inevitably different, and the mirror is a medium to connect those two. Don Quixote was only defeated by the mad old man Alsonzo Quixana. He is a representative of the French revolutionaries, of the luddites, of Marx, of George Orwell, of Salvador Allende, of Che Guevara. He may also be the representative of ourselves. Escaped from the routine life, we float in the world of imagination. If we were Don Quixote, we already have put one of our legs on the saddle of Rosinante. Knight of the mirror didn't forced the lord the reality. He merely gaved Don Quixote, the right to choose, and Don Quixote decided, actually Servantes decided to return Don Quixote home.
What moved me to tears was the next scene. As a loser, he rapidly grew old and is close to his death. However, encouraged by the fade reminiscence, he wake up from his bed and sing... to pass away right after. The tears were not for his ideal, but for the pity to the lord and such cruel ideal.
Simultaneous to Don Quixote's death, the jail door is opened, and Servantes is going to attend the inquisition, which may lead him to death. Then, the prisoners sing "To live with your heart striving upward. To a far, unattainable sky!"
Servantes walks confidently, in contrast to our walk, reluctant to leave the theater.
"Vamos, Sancho!"
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