Goya doesn't talk about painting

Blanca 2022-03-01 08:01:34

I never dared to get my hopes up for a new Natalie Portman film.

It is obviously unkind to expect her every film to be well-received because she likes her. After all, making a film is not something she can do with just one face. No matter if she looks good or not, if you like her, you will take all the photos. Anyway, even if the movie is a little worse, people are still good-looking.

So this movie really shocked me. In fact, she has never appeared a few times in the movie, and she only has one or two sets of clothes. It is no wonder that when I saw the stills before, I didn't even know what she was shooting, and I didn't pay attention when the movie came out. It's not like the scenery when shooting Star Wars at all. In fact, perhaps uninformed viewing is the most attentive, and there will be no preconceived judgments. Pretty Ines is thrown into a dungeon for fifteen years by the wicked Inquisition almost at the very beginning. When the sun and moon in the outside world change and she sees the sun again, she's so ugly that she can't even recognize it. I can't help but complain why I have to give her such unrecognizable makeup, even if I want to fight for the Oscar winner. It was a bit harsh. This must be the ugliest or the most challenging make-up she has ever made in film history, and the bald head in V for Vendetta is simply a beauty. Fortunately, she later appeared in the glamorous image of her own daughter, which fulfilled the wish of a superficial moviegoer like me who only wanted to see beautiful women.

Lorenzo, who had raped her and abandoned her and never felt sorry for her, was finally cast aside by thousands of people after his high spirits. When the church that regained power threw him to death and threw him away in a broken cart, empty. A group of little boys sang naughty songs on the street, only Ines walked with him holding the child and holding his hand. No crying, no hate. In this picture, the old and ugly she suddenly became indescribably beautiful again. Because I was moved.

Originally, I naively hoped that there would be a happy ending in the end, the mother and daughter would recognize each other and let Ines live a happy second half of his life. But that was really outdated. It's still like this, it's better to be deeper.

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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.