great movie

Rating: 10/10 (21 January 2003)

it's strange, i don´t particularlly lisent to classical music but somehow this picture caught all my attention. this is a movie about wolfgang amadeus mozart and his rival antonio salieri. film starts with salieri (f murray abraham) conffesing he killed mozart, so he´s taken to an assylum after he deliberately cut his trhoat. there he meets with a priest and he tells him the story of when he met mozart. we watch salieri as a child wanting to be a great composer, but when he finally accomplished his dreams, mozart appears and salieri begins to feel that god has abandoned him and his hate for mozart grows very quiqly.
the plot is ok with some very good moments and situations. surely the best thing here is abrahams performance, it's wounderfull and exquisite, i kept thinking trough the whole movie what a good actor he is and then i thought about his short career and that he never did a protagonist role after this, what a pitty. tom hulce is good. the music is of the best (obiously, it's mozart) and direction by milos forman is his all time best.
special mention to jeffrey jones as the emperor (he's very funny).9/10.