jasmine scented witch

Brett 2022-03-15 09:01:10

(The name of this movie is a headline party, so let me be a headline party too.) I

watched the movie "Goya's Ghosts" some time ago. The title doesn't make sense. I thought it was a biopic of Goya, telling about his paintings and pursuits, but he was not the protagonist. It can be called the story of a scumbag Lorenzo and a poor woman Ines. I deeply feel that if a woman has no self-awareness, beauty can only be trampled on by others.

I thought Goya and Ines were in love, but they didn't. She didn't seem to understand love, and then went to prison and was killed by Lorenzo. After finally being free, he has lost everything. In order to find his daughter, he crawls at the feet of Lorenzo, and then he is sent to an unknown place, which is quite disappointing.

When Goya went to question Lorenzo, looking for her whereabouts, Lorenzo said: "You are completely fascinated by her. He said excitedly: That face was imprinted in my brain. She was the angel on top of the Florida church. I saw her in the tavern, I saw her on the street, I saw her in my dreams. In Karis, I thought I was going to die, all I saw was her face. And I didn't do anything when she needed me. I won't abandon her this time. But in the end he couldn't save her, she died of her own ignorance.

Some people say that Goya's feelings for Ines include appreciation and admiration for beautiful things. In his heart, Ines will always be a little witch with the scent of jasmine, which is a desire to guard without lust. I like the feeling that only an artist can truly appreciate the beauty of women, but they are not considered to be able to live together.

Vulgar people only use reality to measure whether a person is a good person or not, and fail to see their value and what is truly touching. They will also use morality to measure their behavior and then deny it. It doesn't matter what lay people say about an artist, but I hope that all films named after an artist use their artistic pursuit, creation, and emotional world as the theme to express this person.

Lorenzo looked at the portrait that Goya gave him and said: "If you meet this person on the street, you must not know him. There is still a distance between the self that people hope and the real situation." In fact, almost everyone is like this, he said. He came out just as he hoped. When some people reveal their true self, they may not necessarily be seen by others, or even misunderstood. Because I was used to seeing disguise, I thought the truth was another kind of disguise.

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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.