Court battles and religious ideological poisoning have never been my favorite type, but the combination of Milos Forman, Natalie Portman and Javier Bardem completely conquered me. The film starts smoothly and clearly, with a few strokes, the complex historical background, the girlish innocence of Natalie Portman, the gloomy hypocrisy of Bishop Lozollen (Javier Bardem), and the cowardice of court painter Stellan Skarsgård. The image of the artist who is full of aura is vivid on the paper. The brisk rhythm quickly disappears, Milos Forman has no intention of depicting a beautiful art world, it is like a derailed train, falling at a high speed into an endless dark abyss, Natalie Portman was ruled by the Inquisition as a believer for not eating pork at a party. For the pagans of Islam, the so-called judgment is nothing but brutal physical destruction and torture. Iss's young face and bright smile are frozen in Goya's paintings, youth and soul are strangled, and the rest of the years are only fear, repression and Nowhere to express the pain.
His artistic talent and keen sense of touch did not make Goya a painter who was arrogant and contempt for the powerful. On the contrary, he had an extremely shrewd compromise to the turbulent situation. During the reign of Napoleon, he could still continue to paint for the French king. Even when the British army invaded and the cardinal regained power, he could still follow the trend. He was not a slick guy, but was helpless driven by cowardice and indifference in his heart. Antmin, his rebelliousness is reflected in the works he created other than serving the court and the church. He chose another way to fight silently. For love, faith, and inner struggle, Goya did not expect people to see it. The complexity and pain in his heart, he just wanted to tell us the frailty of fate swallowed up by the huge waves of history.
In fact, Lozollon is the real protagonist of the whole movie. He was coerced by Yith's father with the same violent means as the Inquisition, and signed the "self-declaration" filled with "I am a chimpanzee hybrid". This is Milos Forman's original The sharpest and most straightforward point in the film is the hypocrisy of religion, even the priest who is full of faith in the sacred and inviolable is vulnerable in the face of violence, not to mention the flower girl who was tortured ten times; Lun was overwhelmed by Yith's beauty, and raped her in prison without teeth, I deeply believe this is not a fictional plot by Milos Forman, which was repeated in those dark times.
Lozollon, who was forced to flee from Spain, returned to his hometown, but he brought Napoleon's team. The French overthrew the religiously ruled Spain. However, in this unpredictable era, all the joy, humiliation, joy, The pain seemed so short-lived: Goya was deaf; after being released from prison, Yi Si became mad after his daughter, and finally became insane; Lozoron found his and Yi Si's illegitimate daughter in the crowd, but because she was a prostitute She was exiled to the United States; Lozolon failed to escape the whirlpool of history in the end, the French hurriedly evacuated, he fell into the British encirclement, the cardinal came back to power, and nothing changed, except for the charcoal creatures and repetitions People who have been humiliated by tyranny.
The Cardinal unexpectedly forgives Lozoron on the condition that he confess all his sins and reconvert to the Church. The tired Lozoron rejected his "mercy", he had seen through this filthy world, the hanging in the square reminded me of the scene at the beginning of "Perfume", the madness in human blood was once again stimulated, Except for Goya, who can only record everything with a brush, except for Yith who has gone mad, and except for the desperate Lozoron, we can't find normal people. We can only see cruelty, greed, and selfish desires fill the whole picture.
No saints, no justice, Milos Forman once again used his keen observation and plain narrative techniques to show the incompleteness and pathos of the times. The pen was able to last forever, but under Lozoron's possession and religious oppression, the flesh was destroyed to the limit of life, and in the end, he could only choose to use crazy methods to escape the physical and spiritual blows. In a specific era, the artworks recorded It is no longer just the beauty of the moment, but also the bitterness of the soul's rapid withering.
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