Goya's Ghosts--Tragedy Without Emotion

Luigi 2022-08-03 12:35:58

I thought it was a very artistic tragedy. It is indeed a tragedy, but it is not as I imagined. Art always has a kind of heart for the artist. It is difficult to describe feelings. There is a kind of wanting to add wings to yourself. The urge towards that feeling is a deep excitement. So I'm disappointed about what I didn't see in this movie. I didn't see much about Goya's passion, his artistic temperament, his special Something made me see a person with no personality and no anger. It's just an average person. It's so sad. The Goya What I like is really only in my mind.

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Goya's Ghosts quotes

  • Inés: [model pointing at defaced portrait] Why doesn't that painting have a face?

    Goya: Because he is a ghost.

    Inés: No, he is not.

    Goya: Have you ever seen a ghost?

    Inés: No. But I have seen a witch.

    Goya: Oh, did you?

    Inés: Yes, but she had a face.

    Goya: So what did she look like?

    Inés: She was... all bent and creepy, and she...

    [whispers:]

    Inés: stank.

    [makes disparaging sound]

    Goya: That's interesting, because the witch that I know, she's... she's young, very lovely, and she smells of jasmine.

    Inés: [smiles] She does?

    Goya: She does. And I'm working on her portrait... right now.

    Inés: [smiles as it dawns on her what he means] I'm no witch!

    Goya: [chuckles] How do you know?

  • Tomás Bilbatúa: [worried father, to his young daughter] You have received a summons from the Holy Office.

    [she sits down]

    Tomás Bilbatúa: Do you have any idea what it might be about?

    Inés: No...

    Tomás Bilbatúa: Where did you go with your brothers last night?

    Inés: The tavern.

    [shakes her head]

    Tomás Bilbatúa: Think. Did you say something sacrilegious?

    Inés: [shakes her head] No.

    Tomás Bilbatúa: [to his two sons] Was there an incident or something they could hold against her?

    Álvaro Bilbatúa: She kissed the feet of a dwarf.

    [Inés sticks her tongue out at him]

    Tomás Bilbatúa: [to his daughter] You did?

    Álvaro Bilbatúa: She did.

    [his mother scoffs]

    Inés: Everyone did.

    Ángel Bilbatúa: You know... they can summon her just to... testify against someone else.

    María Isabel Bilbatúa: [hoarsely] Someone else?

    Inés: Is there someone you know they might be interested in?

    Inés: I don't know.

    [shakes her head]

    Inés: No.