Amadeus

             It would be very easy for me as a reviewer to write that the film Amadeus was one of the best films I have ever seen, that it was a masterpiece worthy of exaltation and extensive reward. However, doing so would be agreeing with a vast majority simply because it is the popular opinion. Amadeus won eight academy awards, which makes it one of the most award winning films of all time but, unfortunately, awards do not make a film interesting. While watching Amadeus, I found myself often board and counting the seconds until the films 180 minutes would come to an end. The film Amadeus is false in the title itself. I was expecting this film to be about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, however by the end of the film I came to believe that the film had been more about composer Antonio Salieri and his contempt for a God he had once loved and honored.
             Antonio Salieri had a dream of becoming the best composer in Vienna as well as the world. The music filled his soul like nothing else and he wanted nothing more than to create music that the world would appreciate. He asked that God work through him, that God give him this gift in exchange for his complete obedience and sacrifice of worldly things. He would give up women as well as all other vices, he would become a symbol of complete virtue in exchange for the gift he desired more that anything. About the same time that Salieri was growing up, another child was growing up with the same passion, a passion his father forced on him from a very young age. His talent was amazing and he started performing in courts at a very young age. Mozart would perfect his talent even more through the years until finally he was unmistakably the best in the world. Salieri continued to hear about Mozart and his talent until finally one day he came across him at one of his concert in the court. He found that not only was Mozart and extremely good composer but he was also vulgar and extremely child-like.
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