When I first watched it, it was all too familiar to see Nick Kidman's slightly neurotic performance, we had already experienced it in "The Moment" and thought it was another Woolf-esque artist . Woolf and Diane are still very similar in some aspects. They were both born in wealthy families with no worries about food and clothing. Neither could integrate into mainstream social life. At the beginning of her artistic career, there was a husband who could not understand her but silently endured her, and they all ended their lives by suicide.
The difference between Diane and Woolf is that she fits the word "geek" in its original sense. The fictitious hairy lover in the film has a classic line: "I'm looking for a real freak." He found that Diane was the real freak that America could produce at that time. Without the appearance of this geek, perhaps there would not be many works in contemporary photography that are both physically uncomfortable, creating motives that make people questionable, and whose artistic value is difficult to judge.
The film does what is hardly unreasonable to imagine the dark side of Diane's heart in a thrilling way, but in general it is handled like a slightly banal fetish, the bad past of a notorious female artist. However, Nick is a little too homely; even the suave little Downey (before the hair removal, he was a bit like Sun Wukong), after the hair removal, he also has a pure and innocent face, which makes people uncomfortable.
They're not even real freaks!
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