There is something irresistible to me about a movie like Amadeus. It does my favorite thing: takes a subject that feels serious—classical music, court drama—and reveals it as essentially the silliest, stupidest thing a person can care about. Then we meet those silly, stupidly passionate people, and we see how they manage to ruin their lives, and it’s wo…
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