Amadeus 4K 1984 Ultra HD 2160p

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Vienna, 1823. Antonio Salieri, once a respected court composer to Emperor Joseph II, is living out his days in a madhouse. In his confession, he recalls his life marked by his confrontation with the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who seemed to playfully create music like the voice of heaven. Salieri, torn by envy and admiration for the genius, vowed to God to destroy his rival at all costs.

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I believe this will be the first and probably last negative review for this movie. I didn't like it, I'll tell you right away. But why, this I will certainly try to explain.

More precisely it is worth defining and agreeing with the general opinion that the movie itself is brilliantly shot, made in the tone and spirit of the 18th century, so there is nothing to pick on about the picture shell. Although the musical accompaniment could have been made more refined, it is Mozart after all, and even I know a few works by Mozart that could have further embellished this movie to further glorify the great genius. What didn't please me the most, however, was the stuffing of the movie.

What kind of message does Peter Schaffer (the author of the play) give us through this movie together with Milos Forman? It's about the feeling that after watching the movie: 'Mozart is a genius, but it's not to his credit. He's a bum, a drunk, a worthless family man. He's not much of a brain, he's puny and frivolous. He's a beggar because of his own stupidity. And who's Salieri? Oh, he is a hero, filled with sorrow, he is a black angel who must be pitied, because the evil God has deprived him of talent'.

It is quite an unpleasant feeling when, as if it were real, they start twisting facts with historicisms and fabrications before your eyes. Mozart lived only 35 years and during these years he wrote more than 600 compositions, among which, as you all know very well, 49 symphonies, more than 20 operas and other massive and complex compositions. By comparison, it's worth saying that one of my favorite classics, Ludwig Van Beethoven, wrote only 9 symphonies, though that doesn't discredit him in any way.

But in this movie, we are shown Mozart is not a hard worker. There are several times fewer scenes where he works than where he pleasures himself with alcohol. There is not a single scene where Mozart is sweating for money with lessons, piano evenings and composing for a stale crust of bread.

It turns out that Mozart himself has in some incredible way descended to Vaudevilles and Requiems. And that he dies for no reason at all. As if there were no one to blame for his death except the great and sad hero Salieri. The official version is still considered that Mozart died because of poor quality of life, simply because of lack of money. In those days, if a person had no money, he stopped heating his room, soon fell ill, and died trivially, of cold.

Mozart laughs the whole movie like a fool. Again, why? Because our screenwriter must have read that Mozart had an unusual laugh, so in order to show how historically accurate his portrayal of the genius is, he made him laugh stupidly and foolishly almost everywhere - at receptions, in the theater, and generally at any most inappropriate moment.

When I watched the documentary about Mozart, I was overcome with pride that such a man lived in the world with us. Here, however, I am led to believe that this greatest of men was unjustified, that the man himself was worthless and that it would have been better if the talent had gone to the hard-working Salieri.

I think one normal person would never believe this, no matter how many such movies are made. Genius is given only to a pure soul, sincere, even if gullible, but strong. Genius is a luminary, not the stupid infant we have been shown. With this approach, I am once again convinced that our world is inhabited by Herostrates, ready to twist everything, for whom nothing is sacred.

At the very end of the movie, Salieri says a phrase about the mediocrity that surrounds us. By including this phrase in the film, the screenwriter and director, through the mouth of the Austrian musician, have very correctly and self-critically assessed themselves. It is impossible, categorically impossible to make movies about geniuses not based on historical data. It is at least vulgar and sacrilegious to the great people on whom the world culture is based to this day.