Amadeus (1984), directed by Miloš Forman, is one of the best films I have ever seen.

First of all, I’m not a native English speaker so I would like to apologize beforehand for the grammatical mistakes. I’ve always loved Mozart and when I was 11, I decided to watch this movie to see the genius mind behind his sublime music. Ooh boy. Of course the movie is highly inaccurate and the characterization of Mozart and Salieri, while being literarily masterful, is quite exaggerated; because it was not based on real events but Peter Shaffer’s play Amadeus instead, which was inspired by Pushkin’s play Mozart and Salieri. That being said, I loved Mozart even more and the magical 18th century Vienna sucked me in instantly.However, even though I still love Mozart, I finally get to understand this movie and its theme much better after watching it a few years later. The movie actually was about a man’s fight against God. After God lets the devoted and hard-working, well-behaved Antonio Salieri have the chance to be the court composer, the highest position any composer would yearn for, He finally mocks him choosing the obscene, lustful “creature” Mozart as His instrument, and giving him an insane talent and brilliance as a gift.“From now on, we are enemies - You and I. Because You choose for Your instrument a boastful, lustful, smutty, infantile boy and give me for reward only the ability to recognize the incarnation. Because You are unjust, unfair, unkind, I will block You, I swear it. I will hinder and harm Your creature as far as I am able. I will ruin Your incarnation."There are only few things that’s worse than a man realizing the mediocrity and pointlessness within his existence and loathing God for it, slowly causing his own fall towards the pit of insanity, darkness and terror. I have never seen a more brutal portrayal of jealousy, defeat, loathing, lust and revolt against God in any movie.Fantastic performances from F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce. Fantastic directing by Miloš Forman (R.I.P.). This fantastic masterpiece of a film deserves every single Oscar it won.Father Vogler: It makes no difference. All men are equal in God’s eyes.Antonio Salieri: [leans in mockingly] Are they? via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2KpbxVO

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