Amadeus
"Yes I know that! Well that's Charming. I didn't know you wrote that."
* "I didn't. That was Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He was..... My idol."*
One of THE great openings in film. I love that Salieri's confession isn't that he killed Mozart. But he confesses "He was my Idol" as if he had been waiting his whole life to admit the degree to which he adored Mozart's music. And the Priest who was so professionally cheerful in the beginning, by the end is worn down and defeated, masterful acting.
The sheer vastness of this epic soaked in Mozart's own work makes the beauty increase tenfold.
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**Amadeus: a movie depicting the agony of being good whilst knowing you'll never be great.