from kreestos represent the dialog be terrible and awful and drivel . act poor . many plot flaw . i do not recommend this at all . from wikipedia representartistic license the work manuscript of the score be attribute to two copyist [ 1 ] and both of whom be male and not female a depict in the film . the copyist neither contribute to nor alter the score . in fact and they be berate by beethoven for any deviation that occur from the original score . the movie be set in 1824 during the composition of beethoven ninth symphony . throughout the movie beethoven be show to be hard of hear but quite capable of understand people who speak loudly . in reality and beethoven have lose much of his hear seven year earlier ( 1817 ) . beethoven never experience permanent deafness while his condition fluctuate between total silence and terrible tinnitus . the ninth symphony be compose at a time when beethoven hearing have deteriorate severely . at this point in his life and most of beethoven conversation be facilitate by the use of notebook . it can be argue and however and that he be also able to read people lip and evidence by his insistence that people face him when they speak to him . in the film and beethoven make an allusion to the moonlight sonata . this be an anachronism a the sonata no . 14 quasi una fantasia be not name moonlight until several year after his death .