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Actors: Alfred Molina and Selma Hayek
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Frida |
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This film tells the story of 20th century Mexican artist Frida Khalo, known for her shocking self-portraits.
Frida is an innocent, wild, societal-norm-defying teenager and student enjoying a carefree life in Mexico with her family and boyfriend. Soon however, she has a violent, tragic bus accident that left her forever changed. Nearly killed, she survived. Nearly paralyzed, after months of surgeries and lying immobile in body casts, she walked again. During those many months, she learned to pour her time and her pain into painting.
Over her life she would continue to cast the ever-increasing, eventually crippling pain and injuries from her accident into her paintings. She would also breathe into them her wild, unconventional life, her affairs with men and women including Trotsky, and her tumultuous marriage to also famous artist the passionate but unfaithful Diego Rivera.
--Lucy Cruell, Resident Scholar
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"Frida", produced by Julie Taymor, presents the life of Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo,in a vibrant, colorful film, full of music, love, and heartbreak. At the center is the artist's struggle for recognition and identity, despite an accident injuring her spinal column when a young woman. Married to the famous Diego Rivera, she emerges as an artist in her own right . The film takes you through Frida's major events in her life, accompanied by an engaging soundtrack and vivid depictions of her art.
--Betty-Jeanne Korson, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Frida |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Getting ahead in:
- entertainment world
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- artist
Strong "rags to riches" component?
Yes
Brain/Body not working?
- physical disability
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- artist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- obsessed
- emotionally unstable
- wild
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (woman) long wavey
Body type
- (woman) skinny
Unclothed?
- Chest
- Full Frontal
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Hispanic/Latinic
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- hard edged
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
- Genius
Physique
- average physique
- physically sick
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) fat
Unclothed?
- chest
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Hispanic/Latinic
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a fight for survival
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Body type
- (man) fat
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Hispanic/Latinic
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- bulging muscles
Setting
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- Mexico
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Misc setting
- bar
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- in awe
- excited
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- licking
- lesbians!
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing full frontal--women
- sex under blankets
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
- Some foul language
If lots of song/dance...
- lot of singing and dancing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Folk music
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