Taking Frida's self-portrait as a clue, the film tells the short but legendary life of the famous Mexican female painter.
The film opens with Frida, dressed in bright and colorful traditional Mexican clothing, lying on a bed covered with various pictures and being loaded into a truck to drive to the site of her art exhibition, which is the only exhibition of her life. The mottled sunlight flashed across her face, and with the changes of light and shadow, time suddenly passed to 20 years ago, when she was just an 18-year-old beautiful girl who was not familiar with the world.
At the beginning of the picture, she is a lively and lovely tomboy. I ran wildly with my classmates on campus, talked about innocent love, and shuttled through the streets with my boyfriend.
Deeply attracted by the murals of the painter Diego, he teased the married Diego, laughing at him as a "fat boy"
When the family was taking pictures together, Frida, who was not following the rules, quietly put on handsome men's clothes. The characteristic one-line eyebrows made her face less soft and more rigid and serious.
Frida Kahlo was born in Mexico in 1907 to three sisters and her father was a photographer. At the age of 18, she was preparing to attend one of the best preparatory colleges in Mexico, which was just beginning to admit women.
However, at the age of 18, fate struck her.
In 1925, Frida and her boyfriend were in a bus and tram collision.
Frida's body is shattered by a sudden car accident. The spine was broken into three segments, the cervical vertebra was fragmented, the right leg was fractured, and the metal rod was inserted into the body, directly penetrating the genitals.
The gold dust of a passenger in the car fell from the sky and sprinkled on the bloody body. She lay motionless on the bed for months in a cast full of casts, and she lost her fertility.
Either die or be paralyzed, and this life is destined to be accompanied by pain.
But she was Frida, and she couldn't accept her fate. After experiencing endless darkness, she decided to spread light for herself.
On the hospital bed, she picked up the paintbrush and painted one self-portrait after another. She covered her white plaster clothes with colorful butterflies.
Art gave her life again. Strong-willed, she not only survived, but also worked hard to practice walking and get out of the wheelchair.
She secretly learned to walk as a surprise to her parents. In Frida's life, she has undergone more than 30 surgeries, large and small, and she can't even move in bed for a whole year. part of her body. Perhaps in pain, the only thing she could perceive was her painting.
The family was overwhelmed by the cost of treatment, and Frida developed the idea of selling paintings to make money. On crutches, she ran to Diego, the painter she had molested, and asked him for his painting advice.
Diego complimented her painting. Diego was divorced at this time, and in the process of dating, the two found that their hobbies and political views were more compatible, so they quickly fell in love. For Frida, Diego was a friend, a teacher and a lover.
Diego is a passionate person. He once said to her: "I can't be single-minded with one person. I can emotionally, but not physically."
Frida asked, "Then can you remain faithful to me?"
"Can"
Despite knowing that Diego was a playboy, Frida agreed to his proposal. She loves him and trusts him to keep her love faithful.
After marriage, Frida and her husband participated in parades, gatherings of friends, painting together, and attending art exhibitions in the United States, and spent a relatively happy time.
But Diego couldn't change his nature and repeatedly cheated on nude models. Frida broke down again and again. Every time she is sad, she goes to drink with friends, sing to divert her sadness, and use painting to soothe her heart.
It's all forgivable because the Diego she loves is just so imperfect. Until one day, Diego cheated on his own sister and completely defeated Frida.
She was crying, roaring, angry, heartbroken to the extreme. She locked herself up, cut her hair, drank and smoked expressionlessly.
This time, Diego was hurt more than the car accident.
When Diego still begged for forgiveness as usual, a heartbroken Frida said to him: "There have been two accidents in my life, one is a car accident, and one is you, you are more serious than the car accident."
After being severely frustrated, Frida also chose not to be bound by marriage, and began to develop romantic relationships with other men and women. When receiving socialist Rostoke, they made no secret of their eroticism, and Frida expressed his love for him. Women like and desire nothing less than men.
In 1938, the surrealist painter Breton was surprised by Frida's paintings and wrote a preface to invite Frida to hold an exhibition in New York, which was a great success.
For a while, Frida gained a lot of fame and fortune, and then went to Paris to hold an exhibition of paintings.
After tossing around, Frida, who was in Paris, wrote to Diego:
But this could not be undone, and in the early 1940s, Diego filed for divorce. The two finally ended their long-existing marriage. At this time, Frida had already begun to approach the end of her life. Due to gangrene infection of her toes, she had to have her toes amputated and her body re-applied to a corset made of leather, plaster and steel.
Two months after the divorce, Diego proposed to Frida again. Although Diego is not a good man, he still wants to take good care of Frida as her condition worsens, to accompany her to overcome the pain, and to accompany her through the last days of her life.
"I hope it is a blessing to leave, and I hope never to return."
Frida has the ultimate perseverance, dashing, brave and romantic in her bones. She is a charming woman. Facing the embarrassing accident, she humorously told the doctor: "It cost me my virginity."
Lying on the bed, she would find a way to comfort her father: "You don't ask me about my plans now?" "Then what are your plans?"
"I'm going to be a self-supporting cripple"
In the face of love, she dares to love and hate. Before marrying Diego, friends and even Diego's ex-wife "scientific" about Diego, "He is a promiscuous person, and 80% of the women here have affairs with him."
But she decided to marry Diego. When Diego cheated, a friend asked Frida: "Why are you putting up with Diego like this?"
"I just love Diego like that," she says, and she has the freedom to have sex with other men and women.
And when Diego completely hurt her, she could afford it and let it go, instead of being a bitter woman, she chose to start a new relationship with others and live her own life of indulgence.
As a woman, she is more open-minded than any man.
When he learned that Diego's ex-wife lived in Diego's house and cooked him breakfast every day, Frida ran to drive her away in exasperation, but after the ex-wife said that Diego had to eat this breakfast every day, in a blink of an eye , Frida let go of the suspicion and learned to cook from her.
She didn't care that her ex-wife humiliated her at the wedding, and the two became close friends.
Frida is like a self-portrait she painted herself. Although the body in the painting has countless wounds and is torn apart, she always has a serious and determined expression, her eyes are firm, her expression is indifferent, and she has always had a solemn and serious attitude towards life and others.
No one could have imagined her pain, because she was the most active person.
Drinking, singing, dancing, she was always enthusiastic and enjoyed talking to her friends.
At the party, the person who drank the most could dance with the sexy woman, and Frida eventually overtook the men present.
Sexy and romantic, wild and lustful, flamboyant and soothing, the eyes she looks at other women are full of appreciation and love.
Frida is a staunch socialist. When social movements broke out in Mexico, she walked in red at the front of an all-male parade, holding flags and striding.
When Rostock, who had been expelled by Stalin, had nowhere to go, she took him in at her house and shot away the harassment of the believers.
When Diego was attacked for creating murals in the United States, Frida rationally encouraged Diego to strengthen his socialist beliefs and not admit defeat.
She has admirable boldness and courage.
During the last exhibition, Frida was completely unable to get out of bed. She had contracted pneumonia, but she insisted on getting out of bed and putting on a prosthesis to go to the exhibition. Later, after the doctor's dissuasion, she stopped trying to get out of bed.
However, in the middle of the exhibition, which is the opening scene of the film, Frida asked someone to carry her bed and transport her to the scene. Even in bed, she is bright and beautiful, toasting with others.
Frida died in 1954.
Before she died, she warned: "I've had enough of my bed after burning this stinky sack."
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