Funny,charming,tragic.

Rating: 10/10 (19 September 2010)

Tom Hulce delivers magic as Mozart in Amadeus, director Milos Foreman's tragic, funny, and charming best picture winner. Amadeus isn't my favorite of Foreman's films but I was so delighted by it, I wanted to hug it.
The film is told through the eyes of an Italian composer named Salieri(played excellently by F. Murray Abrham in his Oscar winning role), who after trying to commit suicide admits to killing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart(Oscar nominee Tom Hulce). So a priest goes and listens to his confessions.
Throughout the movie, Salierti, now an old man, tells the story of his relationship with Mozart. It shows his hatred for him, his jealousy, and how Mozart's success was Salierti's failure,and vice versa.
The film is very educational. It taught me things that I didn't know. Tom Hulce and F. Murray Abrham are marvelous. It's a shame that they never went on to do that much afterwards. Had Hulce won the Oscar, he might have been a household name.
Like almost all of Foreman's films, it shows real people rise and fall. And I didn't expect to see Mozart fall. And when he does, we feel for him. REally, I felt for both characters. Because you're supposed to choose between Mozart and Salierti. Andf it's a tough choice. Amadeus is tragic and sweet, and for people with brains,to say the least. It's a classic that will live in my heart and charm me forever for the years to come.
4/4