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Julien 2022-04-19 09:02:59

It's my favorite costume theme. Well... as a biographical film of a classical artist, perhaps no one can surpass "Mozart". (Actually, if you look back, you will find that acquired power is limited in the end, and most of the moving power comes from the soundtrack of the movie, that is, Mozart himself.) Although it is a bit unfair, Goya's paintings are also powerful, but unfortunately they are used in movies. After all, the impact is not as intuitive as music.

But as far as the film itself is concerned, the plot is flat. Two men who were supposed to be good friends were moved by the same woman, the painter of Plato and the priest who succumbed to the flesh. The woman then went to the Inquisition, and a few years later became a lunatic and was released to find her lost daughter. In this process, the original two men, one good and the other evil, each embarked on a different path.

Fortunately, it does not focus on boring sensationalism like "Beethoven", but focuses on exaggerating the historical trend and the fate of the country and the country, and it has a corresponding sense of heaviness. Used the background of the Spanish Inquisition and Napoleon's invasion of Spain. The tone and lensing are also very similar to those large-scale oil paintings with historical themes.

In short, it is a film with a PASS plot, suitable for watching pictures.

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Extended Reading
  • Marcus 2022-03-28 09:01:13

    In fact, the overall level is not even three stars. After you sang and I came on stage, it was the ignorant masses who suffered. It was an old topic, and I didn’t say anything new. If you are entangled in a single role, you may not know it. It seems to be fairly smooth, and Baden's performance is also passable, barely 3 stars.

  • Kirsten 2022-03-18 09:01:09

    I don't know much about the historical background and religion, which seriously affects the understanding of the film.

Goya's Ghosts quotes

  • Tomás Bilbatúa: Forgive me, Father Lorenzo, but um, have you ever been put to the... to the Question, yourself?

    Brother Lorenzo: Have I ever been?

    Tomás Bilbatúa: Yes. Have you ever been subjected to the Question?

    Brother Lorenzo: Of course not.

    Tomás Bilbatúa: Do you think that if you were, and they asked you to confess something grotesquely absurd... say... say you were told to confess that you're really a monkey.

    [laughter around the table]

    Tomás Bilbatúa: You're sure that god would grant you the fortitude to deny it? Or would you rather confess to being a monkey? To avoid the pain.

    Goya: I know I would.

    Tomás Bilbatúa: I know you would. So would I.

    Tomás Bilbatúa: [to Lorenzo] Would you?

    Goya: What is this Tomás, are you playing some sort of silly game with you guest? Nobody would ever ask Father Lorenzo to confess something so absurd.

    Tomás Bilbatúa: I would.

    [leaves the table]

  • Tomás Bilbatúa: [reading from a freshly prepared document] I, Lorenzo Casamares, hereby confess, that contrary to my human appearance, I am in fact, the bastard son of a chimpanzee and an orangutan, and I have schemed to join the church, in order to do harm to the holy office.

    Tomás Bilbatúa: [places the parchment and quill in front of Lorenzo, then sits down] Sign it.