This movie illustrated the cruel of mediocrity through Antonio Salieri. Given the longing to be the town's best musician, Salieri is not the most talented musician. He blamed God for giving him the longing to be the best musician but not talent. When it comes to the best musician in town, most people will recall of the name Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Salieri, living in hatred towards God and his one and only competitor in the music industry, decided to take his revenge one day by not allowing Mozart to be successful by setting him up in various methods. These methods including not helping him in regards of financial and suggesting to the emperor ideas that are contradicting to Mozart's goal.
Salieri's action of blaming God for giving him the will to be a great musician but not the talent showed a contradicting worldview in religion. He believed of the presence of God only when something good occurs. However, when something undesirable happened, he stopped believing in God and swore to be the one to laugh at God and Mozart.
Towards the end of the movie, Salieri and Mozart both worked together in completing an orchestra. Despite Salieri's previous hatred towards Mozart, it is observable that Salieri also admires Mozart as a most talented musician. Salieri have dual attitudes towards Mozart. On one hand, Salieri wants to hinder Mozart from becoming the most successful musician in town. On the other hand, Salieri deeply admires Mozart's music production.
It is also observed from the movie that Mozart's attitude is different from normal person. His thought processes are not matured and he tend to perform inappropriate action in a formal occasion. For instance, Mozart occasionally laughed in a high pitch tone in the front of the emperor. His abnormal behavior signals that he might be having certain mental illness.
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