The director Milos, who grew up in Czechoslovakia, grew up in an orphanage in the same year, and only came out to know that his parents died in a Nazi concentration camp. He himself once admitted that losing his parents was not a particularly painful thing at that time, because he did not understand the end of life. After the fall of the Third Reich, the Czech Republic entered communism, and Milos, who was engaged in art, experienced the secret police, the control of speech - like Goya living under the Spanish Inquisition. These artists are all observers standing by, watching people's lives flash in front of their eyes, and when they can, they express these pictures in their own artistic forms.
Luckily, Goya's art did not have time to be banned by the inquisition; and in the 1970s, Milos' film "Black Pete" in the Czech Republic won international acclaim, but was permanently banned by the authorities, and Milos' director's work could not continue. Only to seek opportunities in the United States, which welcomed him with open arms.
In Milos' eyes, the change of dynasty is nothing new, as he has experienced it three times. In the elongated clues of this film, it is to tell the sad fate of various characters in these dynasties. There are thousands of stories of life and death, and Milos has no ability to take care of those fleeting deaths. Before each character's life ends, or his youth perishes, the twists and turns of the story will never end. As an artist, the most tangled thing is that there is no ending that can satisfy the audience who is eager for entertainment today; how can these ghosts whose lives have been stolen by war and the system make you leave the theater full of pure fantasy?
Zhang Yimou's "Alive" and Chen Kaige's "Farewell My Concubine" are all about such ghosts. The souls in Goya's notebook were recorded by Goya, and "Goya's Souls" was interpreted by the director and starring actors. We Only then can I clearly see that life is drifting with the wind under the drastic changes of the system, the sweet young girl withering into the peak of the old woman, the beggar and the fugitive become the powerful, and the powerful become the prisoner.
Only with love for these characters from the beginning can you truly appreciate the pain and incredible sadness they experienced. I am preconceived because "Mozart" likes the subject matter that the director focuses on - personal vs. system, preconceived because "The Killer is Not Too Cold" likes to star in Natalie, and I like Goya and the artist's story; They were distressed and saddened by what happened, and felt helpless for the impermanence of life.
Interestingly, these films with tragic endings in life have all been blocked by mainstream society, some have been banned, and some have been marginalized by business. "Goya" was rejected for distribution in the United States. It is hard to imagine that a film starring these stars has not been released in the mainstream. It has just received one million at the box office in the United States, and less than ten million worldwide.
This fate seems to be the same as Goya's portrait of the Queen of Spain. Before the work is completed, the artist absolutely does not allow other people's evaluation, and after the result is announced, the audience may look gloomy and walk away. And the artist counsels his shoulders: But, this is a very beautiful work!
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