Then we have to look at the legendary experience of the painter. A car accident made a young girl and a sick man forever bond, fell in love with a man who was looking for flowers and willows everywhere, was constantly betrayed and hurt, the child who could have brought some sustenance also died in the womb, and the body and mind were scarred and dilapidated. Such a woman seems to have more reason to die than to live. As a biographical film, I could not feel the deep pain, but was bewitched by the splendid colors. According to the prior imagination, reading the biography of such a person will probably be too gloomy and breathless. Frida's paintings are her life, and Frida's letting go, in my imagination, seems to be a voice that said to her - end it, your life has dried up. Frida in the film is so happy that even disasters are just decorating her beauty. Such a Frida, such a colorful life movement, can not find the reason for the end. Therefore, the film also does not directly tell the audience that Frida committed suicide, because it is illogical.
The selection of materials for this biopic is more Hollywood-style, and it presents the most dramatic plots and scenes, but it all ends with a heavy brushstroke, with little deep excavation, so far. It seems that the creators deliberately don't let the audience be infected by the pain of the heroine, just eating the cream on the cake is enough. What this movie makes us eat is only cream, not cream cake, and what most audiences care about most is the taste of cream rather than the cake below, and it may even end after eating cream. What attracts the audience is the legendary Frida, peculiar paintings, wild women, the union of elephants and doves, the romantic revolution, the adultery of a careless husband and his sister, homosexuality, the alleged murder of the famous Trotsky... Enough, enough pop elements for a good movie to be enough to not need a painful Frida. Probably because of this, the movie does not need a rough actress, but a beautiful to delicate female star. Selma Hayek is serious, but more serious is making Frida beautiful in every scene, even when she's dying of pain, so beautiful that if she doesn't say anything, everyone will be so beautiful. Will forget that she is lame.
Not trying to say this movie is bad, just not as good as I expected; not that I would love to see a miserable Frida, but a woman who passed her silver wedding anniversary happily in the arms of her loving husband is not me Imaginary Frida. That's all.
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