Mixed feelings

Lolita 2022-03-21 09:03:18

After hesitating and hesitating, I still gave it four stars. If it hadn't been called "Goya", it could have been a very good movie. The world is impermanent, people's hearts are fickle, and all that should be manifested. But it was Goya, and Goya's side as an artist was downplayed, which makes people feel uncomfortable.

Unlike Mozart. That's a matter of Mozart and Salieri. Salieri is still Mozart's foil even if he is brilliant. The character of Mozart is one with the film Mozart—he is the proposition, he is the question. The Goya of "Goya's Soul" has almost become a prop for storytelling. Lorenzo did a great job, but even though it was overwhelming, it still lacked the power to support the theme. Perhaps I should say that the fate of Spain is the real protagonist of this film? However, in this case, Goya's existence is unnecessary.

Ah, anyway, the Spain I really cared about had long since disappeared with the demise of the Habsburg dynasty. So whether this film is good or bad, I can still watch it in peace after all.

But to be fair, the ending of the movie is really good.

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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.