Humans have invented the two extreme concepts of justice and evil, and have done countless things that are both good and evil in the name of these two. No matter in what era or in any corner, people are creating heroes and saints, and then using their influence to create beliefs and public opinion. As the general public, we are taught, and our task is to listen, believe, and obey, because history has proved that justice has never been the main theme of the process of human civilization, and evil often takes justice as a prisoner. The key is not the struggle between justice and evil. Hamlet has been staged 10,000 times, and the only thing that remains the same is the winner, the king and the loser. The winner equals justice, and power has always been the most reliable baton in the direction of history. And the battle between good and evil is just a tried-and-true panacea.
In the story of Goya's Ghosts, demons are in power and angels are in trouble -- the reason is that demons have countless faces, and angels have only fragile souls. The demon-possessed Lorenzo is a chameleon that changes with the times. He is a sanctimonious priest. He is the standard-bearer of the French Revolution. Lamb, she followed the invisible and intangible Lord, followed by the priest who raped her, until she went mad at the end, she still followed the dead man who had tortured her all her life. The painter Goya is powerless to change this absurd and terrifying world. What he can do is to faithfully express beauty and ugliness, good and evil, life and death with his brush. At the end of the story, he sees the daughter of demons and angels standing beside the new rulers of Europe who conquered Spain as prostitutes and mistresses to usher in an unknown new era, and he knows that we are a symbiosis of good and evil .
Whether it is religion or kings, democracy or laws that rule us, we should all understand one simple truth: that is not the justice that human beings have been waiting for for thousands of years. Justice, just the legendary ghosts.
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