Recently we have watched a very
grasp film which is entitled “Frida”. The movie was adapted from the book
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera. It was directed by Julie
Taymor. The main characters of the film are Salma Hayek (Frida Kahlo) and
Alfred Molina (Diego Rivera).
Frida begins with the traumatic
accident Frida Kahlo suffered at the age of 18 when a car trolley collided with
a bus she was riding. She is impaled by a metal pole and the injuries she
sustained plague her for the rest of her life. To help her through
convalescence, her father brings her a canvas upon which to start painting.
Throughout the film a scene starts as a painting, then slowly dissolves into a
live-action scene with actors.
Frida also details the artist's
dysfunctional relationship with the muralist Diego Rivera. When Rivera proposes
to Kahlo, she tells him she expects from him loyalty if not fidelity.
Throughout the marriage, Rivera cheats on her with a wide array of women, while
the bisexual Kahlo takes on male and female lovers.
The two travel to New York City. While in
the United States, Kahlo
suffers a miscarriage, and her mother dies in Mexico. Rivera refuses to
compromise his communist vision of the work to the needs of the patron, Nelson
Rockefeller; as a result, the mural is destroyed. The pair return to Mexico.
Kahlo's sister Cristina moves
in with the two at to work as Rivera's assistant. Soon afterward, Kahlo
discovers that Rivera is having an affair with her sister. She leaves him, and
subsequently sinks into alcoholism. The couple reunite when he asks her to
welcome and house Leon Trotsky. She and Trotsky begin an affair, which forces
the married Trotsky to leave the safety of her Coyoacán home.
Kahlo leaves for Paris after Diego
realizes she was unfaithful to him with Trotsky. When she returns to Mexico, he asks
for a divorce. Soon afterwards, Trotsky is murdered in Mexico City. Rivera is temporarily a suspect,
and Kahlo is incarcerated in his place when he is not found. Rivera helps get
her released.
Kahlo has her toes removed when
they become gangrenous. Rivera asks her to remarry him, and she agrees. Her
health worsens, including the amputation of a leg, and she ultimately dies
after finally having a solo exhibition of her paintings in Mexico.
Frida Kahlo is the magnificent
surrealist Mexican painter. Her works are penetrated by sensuality and
realness. Most of all in Fried's life loved a life — and it is a magnet drew to
her men and women. In the self-portraits she represented herself both a woman,
and a man. She tried to understand all duality of human nature. She dreamt of
the child, but the terrible trauma has not allowed her to have children.
Therefore in her pictures dead children are represented more often. Despite
this fact, nevertheless the majority of her pictures, still-lifes, landscapes
are penetrated by the sun and light. On her self-portraits she doesn’t depict
herself smiling. The idea of her pictures is ciphered in details, a background,
the figures appearing near to Frida.
In my opinion, this film is
full of emotions and it was very pleasant to watch it. While watching this
movie I was admired with her firmness and art to enjoy the life. The brilliant
playing of actors and the plot of the film have made it a real classic of
genre.