Their love goes both ways

Roderick 2022-05-11 19:42:45

I know people tend to blame Francis for George's tragic ending, but their love goes both ways - the physical infidelity can be seen in both of them, it doesn't matter; The essential difference cannot be approached and hurt each other. My understanding is that their relationship that started with rough trade ended up with neither of them escaping, maybe it's the quote in the movie "once a stone is polished, you can't get it rough again. That's why whores are afraid of cut flowers. That means they are going to die soon.”

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  • Arne 2022-05-11 09:34:08

    George is just a low-level mortal, although his strong body (Daniel Craig, I'm so good!) and innocent personality satisfied the painter Bacon's temporary sensuality, and also inspired him some creative inspiration, but the gap between the two has been a long time. It's becoming more and more obvious that people from different worlds can't be forced to twist together after all. Bacon was unmistakably selfish, and his indifference to George's emotional and psychological problems caused him to go further and further down the road of collapse. But is it because of his nature, or is it his creation, his gloomy, twisted, crazy art that makes him this way? Perhaps the two cannot be distinguished at all. The film’s cinematic language is very strong (the staircase’s rotation is instantly reminiscent of Vertigo’s stair-stretching shots), and although it doesn’t directly use an original painting, the cinematography uses mirrors, glass, and fisheye lenses, as well as some surreal psychedelic shots to create bacon. The exaggerated, deformed and distorted nightmare atmosphere of the work is very artistic in aesthetics!

  • Opal 2022-05-11 20:23:07

    The plot focuses on sexuality, but the picture can be completely integrated into Bacon's painting style; when the cage appears at the end, it is really creepy and beautiful; the sexual tension of the first sex scene is so beautiful. "sorry" mixed together; the impression of George has always been that of a sadist, but still saying that he is willing to change for love, he is envious of this feeling

Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon quotes

  • Bell-Hop: I'm sorry to trouble you, Mr. Bacon, but it's your friend Mr. Dyer.

    Francis Bacon: Oh. What is it now?

    Bell-Hop: Well, I'm afraid he's on the roof of the building.

    Francis Bacon: Oh...

    Bell-Hop: And he says he's gonna jump.

    Francis Bacon: Ohh!

    Bell-Hop: So we were wondering if you might...

    Francis Bacon: [Disinterested and annoyed] ... Come up and give him a push?

  • Francis Bacon: In all the motor accidents I've seen, people strewn across the road, the first thing you think of is the strange beauty, the vision of it, before you think of trying to do anything. It's to do with the unusualness of it. I once saw a bad car accident on the large road, and the bodies were strewn about with broken glass from the car and the blood and the various possessions, and it was, in fact, very beautiful. I think the beauty in it is terribly elusive, but it just happened to be the disposition of the bodies, the way they lay in the blood.