Milos Foreman's Films - Foucault's Best Interpretation

Julie 2022-03-01 08:01:34

Whether it's "Sex Book Tycoon"/"The People vs. Larry Front", "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", or this "Goya's Soul", Milos Foreman is explaining Foucault's theory---- Are rights a necessary tool for justice or a culprit for injustice?
The confrontation between the pornographic magazine boss and the US government in "Sex Book Tycoon", the confrontation between doctors, nurses and mental patients in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", the confrontation between the Inquisition and the pro-Napoleon government represented by Father Lorenzo in "Soul of Goya" , These fables all reflect the horror of rights, telling us with their tragic endings that any form of rights, no matter how beautiful it wears a halo, is by no means a panacea to save the world, but it is precisely the destruction of human nature. A deadly poison that ultimately destroys humanity.

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Extended Reading
  • Kay 2022-03-17 09:01:09

    The state of life in the macroscopic context of Europe before and after the French Revolution, with socially distorted forms. Either he sits on the wall like Goya, and his paintings are poisoned; or he follows the trend of Lorenzo and defends the way hypocritically; or he ignorantly believes in Ines, who paints the heart of an angel with his whole life. After you sing, I will appear. In troubled times, it is absurd.

  • Makayla 2022-03-28 09:01:13

    The title of the film is a bit strange. Does the spirit of Goya refer to his painting or the girl in the painting? In short, it is a bit far-fetched to use Goya to string up this human comedy or this piece of history. ps, why is the revolution so similar no matter what time and space it takes place in? . . .

Goya's Ghosts quotes

  • Brother Lorenzo: There will be no liberty for the enemies of liberty!

  • [Bonaparte and Lorenzo are looking at paintings of Maria Luisa]

    Joseph Bonaparte: I met her once... don't recall her being quite so ugly though. How did she have so many lovers?

    Brother Lorenzo: [smiling] She was the Queen, Your Majesty.