a masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (9 April 2001)

I would like to join a large group of people praising the movie and say that it is one of the best films ever made. Everything is of highest standards in the film: plot, photography, choreography,music, acting etc. It is that rare case, when the words are not capable of expressing all the scale and beauty of the film. You have to see it, then to ponder on it, again to see it and so on. This is a real art: refined, elevated and human,inciting to fall to thinking, meanwhile giving an immense pleasure.
Milos Forman, who I consider as one of the greatest movie directors of all time and with whom you have the highest possible chance to see a new masterpiece, has done an outstanding job. The film is not about music and the two composers, and therefore, can not pretend to be historically accurate (although I don't think it's far away from what was real). The film is about a genius and mediocrity, and their relationship. The film raises a question: why is that from the birth it is decided whether a man will be a genius or not. Further actions, the way of leaving, as well as personal characteristics, positive or negative, are less important. Forman masterly examines the human foibles, revealed in extreme conditions, and we start sympathizing with Salieri: it is even difficult to determine on whose side the director is. We support and like genius, but what we can do if the most part of the world is populated by the mediocre (ordinary) people? and in the final scene Salieri absolves the asylum inmates -and not only them- from the sin of mediocrity.
Amadeus is a brilliant piece of the real art, shining out in twilights of today's depreciated art, including the cinematography.