So Many Notes

Rating: 8/10 (10 September 2000)

What's so wonderful about this movie is its ability to get you into the mind of the composer Salieri. Through Salieri's distorted POV we come to love Mozart and are in awe of his genius, but at the same time are blown away by his apparent lack of understanding of his own genius. We can empathize to a certain extent with Salieri, but pity him as much for his own lack of understanding of his own talent and his obsessive jealousy. Forman's movie is captivating, exciting, dramatic, funny, educational and most of all incredibly sad and beautiful. It's a classic.