depressing plot is over, under the sky full of dead souls, in the deep and empty long alley, children are jumping happily and carefree, corpses, babies, living people - the composition The cruel and beautiful ending of "Spirit of Goya".
In the ending song that gave me a "crazy at the grave, trying to praise life", a strange thought always lingered in my mind: God, really like a sandbag.
why? Because the sandbag is a real thing, not a belief - belief has nothing to do with interests and fears - when people need him, God in human form "sacred" down from the sky; when people no longer need him , God was kicked away without a trace. The God of human beings is in fact "non-free" - when he is called, he will go when he is shouted. From this level, "the freedom of God" is directly related to the freedom of human beings. When "God" really acts as a A belief, which appears or disappears freely, may allow human beings to face up to their own freedom.
Regarding the appearance of the Sandbag God, "existentialism" seems to be raising its arms and shouting that human beings cannot be alienated, and human beings do not have to believe in religion! However, in addition to the sandbag-like God, "Spirit of Goya" is also mixed with many existential viewpoints: freedom, alienation, death anxiety, contingency, absurd world, meaninglessness, what is and what is not...
Lorenzo is the most full-fledged character in the movie. He transformed from a priest to a leader of the liberal revolution, and his change is no less than the transformation of Lotz from the great evil "devil" to the great "good" in "The Devil and God". God". The difference is that Lorenzo is cowardly and addicted to power, while Lotz is arrogant and reckless; the same is that they both finally decided that God does not exist and made the last choice of life, a complete one. A free choice that ignores the existence of God.
"Man is free!" Sartre's passionate voice is still resonant to this day.
It is precisely because people are free that they have the most basic ability to choose - you can choose to give up, but you cannot give up the choice. Lorenzo is free, so he can choose to believe in "God" and become a priest; he can also choose to believe in "freedom" and become a revolutionary. You can choose to escape the punishment of the religious court and become a deserter; you can also choose to accept the punishment of the religious court and die. Some people may refute: Lorenzo was forced to betray "God" in a desperate situation, how can it be called his "free choice"? But the crux of the matter is, who can force him to betray "God"? Maybe because he was afraid of death. But who can force him to fear death? Maybe because it's biological instinct. But who can force him to be controlled by instinct? ... Human beings are a kind of conscious existence, and this kind of consciousness cannot be directly intervened by external forces - no one can peel off your head and put things in it? It can be seen that human beings are a kind of existence.
As for "freedom", in addition to reminding me of Sartre's "The Devil and God", the movie has another play: "The Submissive Whore".
Ines screamed, "tell me what is the true," and finally pleaded guilty—while Lizzie, at first insisting on fair testimony for black people, finally abandoned her original claim completely. ...and near the end of the film, Goya and Lorenzo scolded each other fiercely like "prostitutes" ...
"The whole of Spain is a big brothel", Lorenzo's last argument completely showed his personal consciousness. What is a "brothel"? It is a state of collective unconsciousness. What is a "prostitute"? A group of leaders who do whatever they want. When religion ruled Spain, people looked up to Xingtai in awe, when the revolution enveloped Spain, people eagerly catered to the leader's death sentence - the collective consciousness of the whole Spain was "obedience", that is, giving up completely "autonomous choice", and It is a negative choice of "not free".
Therefore, when they rejected the "sandbag God", they could make a choice that conforms to their own wishes - more powerful motivation and more active involvement in life - "God" did not give Lorenzo a face as a priest The courage to be tried by the Inquisition, but when he got rid of the shackles of God and became a relatively progressive revolutionary, Lorenzo, trembling and foaming at the mouth, was still on Xingtai, throwing away the last cross in his hand.
As mentioned above, Lorenzo, Goya, Ines, like countless others, are people who have the right to "free choice" - because man is free, he freely chooses what he likes Or what he doesn't like, or even what he is unconscious of, but the ontology of this choice is uncertain, so it creates the "accidentality" of life.
A person's life is a combination of countless coincidences. To use an analogy, Lorenzo's was forced to sign an insulting confession - precisely because Father Lorenzo "accidentally" came to Ines' house for a meal, and "dine" precisely because the priest's friend "accidentally" " was a friend of the Ines family, and the reason for the Ines family's treat was precisely because Ines "accidentally" rejected the pork he hated that night, and this scene "accidentally" "Seen by the people of the Inquisition...Any random chance is a process of self-selection, and this self-selection is free - if Ines didn't go out that night, if Ines ate that night Pork, if... There is no doubt that every "if" is a possible "fact", and the real "fact" is formed by randomly discarding many "ifs". Therefore, life is accidental. Lorenzo who came to the world by accident, became "Lorenzo" by accident, and then "accidentally" started his own story.
It is true that "contingency" does not cut off the causal connection. Hegel once said that "existence is reasonable" - something that has already existed must have a reason for its existence, but there are still variables before its existence. From another perspective, perhaps, acknowledging the contingency of life does not bring more splendor to life, and even adds a basis for our remorse, but its significance is that, like existential philosophy itself, it is equivalent to an attitude, A detached and face-to-face attitude towards life. The author has always believed in such a statement: a truly kind person never simply smiles at the sun, but after seeing everything, he still lends a helping hand to all rescues.
Why Lorenzo is afraid of death - people have "death anxiety"; why Goya insists on painting - life is meaningless, but people can create meaning, and recording is the meaning of Goya; why Ines is persistent For her own children - she believes that this is her only, the meaning of her life, she has made her own choice... Everything is based on the fundamental point of view, and people are free.
To sum up the whole text, people are free, and "God" should be free too.
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