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• 27 April 2010

Where do I start (I am a little out of practice in writing reviews, sorry for being gone for so long). I really liked this movie so much, I watched it while I was on vacation with my Mom. It’s about Frida Kahlo, from when she was a student and got into a really bad accident, to when she dies when she’s 47. She was a painter who lived in the 1920s in Mexico City, Mexico and was married to Diego Rivera, another painter. The movie was directed by Julie Taymor, who I really like too. It had a lot of guest stars like Antonio Banderas, Edward Norton, Ashley Judd, and Alfred Molina. The soundtrack was incredible and  had people on it like Chavela Vargas, who was close to the real Frida Kahlo when she was still alive.

The accident that Frida gets into happens on a trolley car. It crashes which breaks her spine and breaks her legs and makes it so she can’t have children. Her family doesn’t think she will ever walk again. Because she is in bed recovering, she starts painting. Then, she starts to get some paintings together and takes them to for Diego Rivera to see. Rivera was the most famous painter of that time, and he had a lot of influence. He was also a communist and he’d been married twice and had lots of affairs.

They fall in love, and get married. They have a really interesting life. They travelled all over the place like New York and Paris. They paint a lot together, and apart. They also They both have a lot of affairs with other people on the side, too. This means that they break up, for example Diego had an affair with Frida’s sister and that made them divorce. They also let Trotsky stay with them when he is on the run from Stalin.

Throughout the whole movie, Frida is sick. She gets sicker and sicker, and finally has to stay in bed all the time. I think the main point I got from this movie is that just because you maybe have an accident, that is not an excuse not to live a really interesting and full life. If Frida can live like this from her bed, we can all decide to have lives that are worth the time. No matter the type, start enjoying yourself.

-Plum

picture from lovefilm.com

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