Goya’s Ghosts
Watching Goya’s Ghosts when I was already feeling down was perhaps not my brightest moment…
Spoiler-filled text ahead.
The movie is decent enough, even though not a masterpiece.
I get angry when I remember what people do to others ‘in the name of God’ because they perceive them as different from themselves. And this was one of those movies that remind me of that.
Natalie Portman plays a Christian, Inés, who is accused by the Church to be a practitioner of Jewish religious rituals. This was a crime in Spain at that time. That of course ends up with Inés being put to The Question, that is, she is tortured until she confesses she is Jewish, even though she is in truth a Christian.
Ironic that the Napoleoic invasion of Spain is what ends the retardedness that was the Spanish Inquisition.
Oh yeah, kudos to the make-up artist, who actually succeeded in making Natalie Portman look like absolute crap at one point of the movie.
On a lighter note: Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Some of the things done in the name of god are/were actually done because people do believe the dogma, and think they’re doing the right thing.
Using god as an excuse for personal agendas, while also common, is giving the hardcore religious retards waaaaay too much credit on the brain power department…like the saying goes, “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity”.
Well, Scientology is the prime example of the ‘personal agenda’ thing. Make people believe something, get their money.
I think the main problem is that people chose not to thing for themselves about things. Even when I was growing up (as a Catholic, btw) I questioned a lot of what I was taught.
Why do people blindly accept what they are told? I guess it’s easier to just not think… :\
PS - nice to have you as a ‘regular’ reader here, Miss Alma. :D
I always read, i just don’t comment much :p
Well, commenting makes me a happy panda. ^^
Then comment i shall!