Directed by Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus), his first
effort since 1999's Man on the Moon, Goya's Ghosts may not rank among his finest works, but it does have its share of
strong moments, enough to
recommend the film as a thoughtful and sometimes frightening commentary on the nature of religious persecution, and the lives destroyed in the wake of their power.
In fact,
efforts have been made to prevent the spread of radical islam based on roughly the mindset of «they need a
strong response» logic that tony
recommends, and those
efforts have, it certainly can be argued, made the situation worse by setting up dynamics that only radicalized mite Muslims than would have been radicalized otherwise.