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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Extended Reading
  • Tracey 2022-03-19 09:01:10

    Chasing Feiyue Lunatic Asylum watched Man on the Moon and liked these two very much. But I don't think I can understand Mozart's biography and this film.

  • Gina 2022-03-01 08:01:34

    Very shocking, religion and revolution can only turn people into ghosts and send angels into hell.

Goya's Ghosts quotes

  • Hooded Monk: Are you prepared to swear on the holy cross that you're telling the truth?

    Inés: About the pork?

  • 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]