It would be very easy for me as a reviewer to write that the film Amadeus was one of the best films I

have ever seen, that it was a masterpiece worthy of exaltation and extensive reward. However, doing so
would be agreeing with a vast majority simply because it is the popular opinion. Amadeus won eight
academy awards, which makes it one of the most award winning films of all time but, unfortunately,
awards do not make a film interesting. While watching Amadeus, I found myself often board and
counting the seconds until the films 180 minutes would come to an end. The film Amadeus is false in the
title itself. I was expecting this film to be about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, however by the end of the
film I came to believe that the film had been more about composer Antonio Salieri and his contempt for
a God he had once loved and honored.

Antonio Salieri had a dream of becoming the best composer in Vienna as well as the world. The
music filled his soul like nothing else and he wanted nothing more than to create music that the world
would appreciate. He asked that God work through him, that God give him this gift in exchange for his
complete obedience and sacrifice of worldly things. He would give up women as well as all other vices,
he would become a symbol of complete virtue in exchange for the gift he desired more that anything.
About the same time that Salieri was growing up, another child was growing up with the same passion, a
passion his father forced on him from a very young age. His talent was amazing and he started
performing in courts at a very young age. Mozart would perfect his talent even more through the years
until finally he was unmistakably the best in the world. Salieri continued to hear about Mozart and his
talent until finally one day he came across him at one of his concert in the court. He found that not only
was Mozart and extremely good composer but he was also vulgar and extremely child-like.

Amadeus was a world wide profound success, receiving 8 academy awards with the help of director
Milos Forman, and the producer Saul Zaenty. It's not about a famous musician and his works, but about
a suffering old man, Antonio Salieri, who carries the guilt of destroying an artist of music, Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, because of his lust for love. Transcending the two, Mozart and Salieri, are the
universal themes they represent; the between God and man; the confrontation of mediocrity and
genius; the difficulty of serving a God whose ways are often poor, irrational, perverse and mockingly
cruel.

This film had made me want to laugh, cry, and feel angry all at the same time. The most moving
scene throughout the whole film was at Mozart's death bed. The magnificent composer, only 35, is
struggling to create another master piece while lying sickly and distraught in the smuggled sheets of his
bed. At the foot of the bed is Salieri carefully writing every note, making sure not to miss a beat as he is
dragging Mozart to his last breath. This scene is moving not because Mozart is trying to withdrawal a
final ingenious work of art so that it will illuminate how sorry his work really is.

The movie opens with an old man yelling out his confession to the city of Vienna in the pitch of
dark: "forgive me, Mozart. Forgive your assassin". He attempts to commit suicide, and is rushed to the
General Infirmary building where there are sickly and neurotic suicidal patients. It is a cold and snowy
out side, yet a young priest comes to hear his confession. Salieri is driven by one thing, and that is for
God to give him the gift of music that he bestowed upon Mozart instead of him. In return he will give his
chastity, vow himself to the church and humility if God grants him this one wish.

The film is told in flash back form, where the old man, Salieri, is telling the priest of his life spent
with Mozart, and the unfo