Let's talk about "Amadeus"

“I absolve you”, the last words we hear from the court composer Salieri. The beauty of this, as in the end it is truly a reply to Mozart asking for forgiveness, which he sees as the voice of god asking for forgiveness for not letting him, a man of devout faith, have a shred of musical perfection. In the end, he absolves the voice, but at last, this is not God, and he is punished, forever to live his life in mediocrity as he continues living each day slowly fading into nothing.

Amadeus is a movie that left me speechless. It is a beautifully shot, each frame holding a matter of significance and looks as if taken from a painting. It reminded me a lot of "Barry Lyndon", a period piece that somehow isn’t a period piece or has the feel of one. One that shows the treacherous nature of man, and the lengths one would go to in bitterness of the unequal talents of man. It is also another movie, a forbidden love, as Salieri is in love with the talent of Mozart but lets his pride and faith blind him from seeking such an acceptance. We see this throughout the film, Salieri is truly mesmerized by the music of Mozart, but lets his pride as a composer himself, stop him from immersing himself into Mozart's work until the very end, where he admits that Mozart is the greatest composer of his time and begins helpings Mozart write his next symphony, truly realizing the distance between them as composers.

They are polar opposites, but they need each other, a yin and a yang. Mozart is an outrageous, loud, talented, spontaneous, and reckless young man, while Salieri is a quiet, respectful, subpar, sneaky, and careful middle age man. They don’t have anything in common, besides the fact that both are composers, their love of music, and that they have issues with their fathers, and yet there seems to be a force that brings them to each other, into this battle of ideals. You see scenes where you believe in another life or another situation, they could have been friends, maybe even the bests of friends if this had ended differently, but then you wonder if it was all an act when they talked to each other or if it was their true selves. Maybe Salieri would have continued being alive, the most we have seen him throughout the film, if he had continued to assist Mozart, a man he truly respects unlike the King whom he acts like a monkey around following whatever he says which enact his father fears, but atlas Salieri accepts himself as the evil he is and the part he played in the downfall of Mozart.

Tom Hulce and Franklin Abraham are brilliant in their roles as if they were born to play them. Both being able to bring to life their character with small features such as a smile fading away, or large ones such as a laugh a character uses to break the awkwardness. The way they are able to show how the death of their character's fathers had impacted them. One being glad his father died so he can go against his father's wishes, while the other is haunted by his father's death for not doing as his father said. Both were able to show the struggle and despair they were going through magnificently, you would almost believe they weren’t acting at all but the spirit of these people had come into them.

I can’t say enough about this movie, it is truly spectacular and one that I will enjoy rewatching hopefully for years to come. Grazie Signore