...at the end he dropped on his knees before the huge animal, then turned his back to the horns and remained so with the bull's right horn in the middle of his spine. Still on his knees he crawled away to pick up a hat that an admirer had thrown in the ring and this he placed on the bull's shoulder. Then, standing back, he sighted with his sword, moved forward and pushed the sword right through the hat and into the proper spot. The bull took one step and dropped dead...
P Picasso drawing.Brave words for some of us, disgusting and out of this time for others. I am an emigrant and can only have an opinion.
These days, to me the beautiful posters of the corridas (bullfights) appear on the streets again. I do like the colours, the drawings. It feels very nostalgic. And I believe to live in Spain and to be able to adapt to this country, you have to love its past, and tolerate its present.
But ....
http://www.allianceanticorrida.fr/english.html
This video below is cruel, unhuman, and barbaric. Don't watch it, if you are already convinced that bullfights are cruel out of time.
http://videos.autocity.com/video/iLyROoaftqAG.html
Yes, Spain at its worst.
But hey hey, I do not think that bullfighting is worse than fox hunting, or wearing fur, or drinking fish alive on belgian fiestas. or killing whales.
Anyway, nothing is gonna make me love Spain less, because I do love this country. It can be so warm, it can be so hot, it can be so sexy.
The flying, its mountains, the Med, flamenco, Penelope Cruz, the tapas, the people, Camaron de la Isla, its beauty, olé ! The paragliding, the best in Europe, no doubt.
1 comment:
I wonder if the 'art' of bullfighting has lost something over time? This video shows a calous, mechanical process of mutilation. I cannot help thinking that it should be finished (the spectacle) and the country move on. It was all fine and well when people didn't know better, but in this better educated age, surely it should be stopped. The same of course goes for the British fox hunting (a ritual for bloated well to do land owning heathens and not indicative of the true nature of Britain at all). On the other hand, this if done clinically and correctly, as in your original words in this post, could perhaps be tolerated for the sake of tradition. There are other 'traditions' such as hanging wrong doers that we have forsaken as being barbaric, so why not these so called 'sports'? What is the purpose of the EU after all, if not to standardise some wrong practices?
I am not unduly outraged by these things, I like you realise that others feel as strongly as I, but for the opposite belief, but perhaps some things are just plain wrong!
Dave
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