Goya's wish

Braeden 2022-04-19 09:02:08

The film uses Goya's paintings as the subject of the theft. Looking through the history of art, Goya can be regarded as a model of diaosi painters counterattacking the upper ranks. Just like Simon, a clerk at the auction house, the hero, but Simon failed...
Until the age of forty-six, Goya was still a painter in the system (court painter), who was not only a rigid and flattering portrait, but also a pastoral painting. The sweetness that was drawn by him is extremely sweet. It is said that under the protection of the priests and nobles, Goya should continue to live as a showman with the same rules as everyone else, and from time to time, he will act coquettishly and let the rich and powerful give some applause. But suddenly one day, a serious illness struck, and after he recovered, Goya changed.

Years later, the apocryphs of Spanish art history began to describe him as "he paints in a way that is as grotesque as his genius. He digs paint out of a basin and paints with spoons, rags, whatever he can get his hands on." "
Of course, after Goya was seriously ill while he was alive, the paintings formed by his thick and flexible thumbs touched thousands of times, most of them became typical of the heretical paintings of the Inquisition. On behalf of, as if the thumb is not touching the G-spot of the powerful, but the anus.

The hero Simon's wish is very simple. He spends a lot of time in the auction house, gets a famous painting in exchange for money, and continues to force the black girl who ravages the royal sister to stay with him. This wish ultimately failed, and the black girl finally accepted the painting and played with him. There may be two reasons for an obscene wish to be realized too quickly: one is that the wish is too cheap, and the other is that the realization is false and vulgar.
In the same way, there are two main reasons why a well-planned wish eventually fails. One is that the wish belongs to a concubine, not one made by oneself. Sorrowful heart. Simon's stolen painting was purely a last resort, and there was no direct partner to help. The wish was finally squeezed by the female protagonist, the black girl, and vented on the bonnet that was on fire. Is this the end of the fire?

Goya's paintings of the final year are said to have returned to mediocrity and are no longer preserved. It seems that after the serious illness of the old man, the fire was too much...

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Trance quotes

  • [first lines]

    Simon: [auctioneer is barking prices] There is a painting, it's by Rembrandt. 'Storm On The Sea Of Galilee', it's called, and he's in it. Old Rembrandt, he's in the painting. He's in there, right in the middle of the storm, looking straight at you. But... you can't see him. And the reason you can't see him is because the painting has been stolen.

  • Elizabeth: We keep secrets from lots of people, but most of all we keep them from ourselves. And we call that forgetting.