When I first saw this movie sometime back in early 80's I remember leaving the movie house without able to mutter one word... and disturbed. The plot in this movie is NOT an orchestra rioting against the conductor, it is actually the History, the Present and the Future of the World. There is one actor, the World. Maybe this interpretation is just personal but this is what I instantaneously knew even before the movie ended. The orchestra is the world, countries, nations, people, the conductor is a leader. Throughout history people revolted against their leaders, children revolted against their fathers. Chaos emerges followed by destruction and the end implacably comes with the bang of a demolition ball, the End. From order, to bickering, small little parties, degradation of morals, open sexuality, unpressed hatred develops exponentially. Every one is lost, injured, desperate, then the only one who has the character strength to pick up what is left and responsibility to lift of what has collapsed is a leader. Crowds are destructive, mobs are criminal or heroic but invariably end to be criminal, the leaders whether Moses, Caesar, Napoleon or Hitler (I saw same connotations about), it does not matter, are those who can in the end unite and lead. Nations, people without a leader are just mobs, bodies without a head. The movie describes such a cycle in human history that has repeated itself incessantly. From order to chaos, back to order in a new cycle. We know it will repeat. People have this little habit of learning hard and forgetting fast.
Review of Orchestra Rehearsal
