One Eye of the Social Record

Sydnie 2022-04-20 09:02:37

Just looking good. The heroine's name is Elise. The actors are beautiful, charming, petite and weak.
A period of Spanish history, the revolving door of the regime change, the church ups and downs. There was the intervention of Napoleon's army, and there was the intervention of the British army. The lives of the people are like weeds and miserable like hell.
Royal painter Goya, who survived disasters, painted what he saw with his eyes.

Elise, the daughter of a wealthy merchant, was imprisoned by the Holy Office for excluding infidels. In prison, gave birth to the daughter of priest Lorenzo, but was sent to a convent? Orphanage? upbringing. The girl escaped from the orphanage and worked as a prostitute to make a living.
After Elise is released from prison, she turns to the painter, finds Lorenzo, and wants to find her daughter. Sent to an asylum by Lorenzo? prison? Afterwards, the painter went over and took Elise back.
Lorenzo went through many twists and turns, from a priest to a revolutionary. With the help of the French army, return to Spain and take power. Get married and have children. After finding the daughter of a prostitute, she persuaded the unwitting daughter to emigrate, but was rejected. Subsequently, a deportation order was issued to drive the prostitutes from Spain to the American Empire, but they were intercepted by foreign troops on the way. Lorenzo was captured on the run and executed for not yielding to the church. The daughter was taken in by the military and watched her father be executed without knowing it.
Elise held the baby she picked up in her arms, accompanied Lorenzo's corpse car, clenched Lorenzo's corpse hand and kissed, and walked farther and farther. . .
The painter witnessed all this -------------
tragic and horrific. living hell.

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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.