Set in Spain during the French Revolution and the Inquisition, Goya's Ghosts portrays the irrational, ungodly power of institutions that claim to speak the truth. The film reveals that in corruption, torture and bloodshed, these two events, often considered together as a clash between reason and faith, actually have much in common. The "true faith" that promised Ines eternal freedom put her "to the Question," squeezed out of her a false confession, and kept her in prison for years. Her crime: refusing pork. She was released thanks to a creed authored in the tongue of Enlightenment, only to be driven insane by Lorenzo, her now-rational former lover and newly proclaimed apostate.
This film seems to warn that an arrogant belief in truth depends upon the production of lies, and the exercise of cold rationality necessitates the creation of insanity. After all, it was released during the Bush regime...
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