Frida, nature vivante

Not knowing the history and something about the life of Frida, this film is not understandable by anyone. It reflects the life of Frida Kahlo, a famous Mexican painter, more famous because of her political position and her love and relationships with painter of mural like Diego Rivera and political person as Liev Trostky. The main characteristic of the film is the lack of dialogues, so, again, not knowing the history it will be difficult to understand the plot. In a scene one may hear the voice of Trostky in French giving the message to Frida, where he invited her to have love and sex with him. In another one there is a bitter dialogue among Trostky, Rivera and Frida, where Trostky speaks in Russian through a woman-translator (the Russian language here is the worst of the world, badly pronounced as if Trostky was not Russian). It is clear that Mexican communists at that time were loyal to Stalin and organized the plots to kill Trostky. The other famous Mexican painter of mural, Alfaro Siqueiros, was against Trostky and behaves as a terrorist.

The life of Frida was abnormal in general, she was a lover of several men and also a lesbian one; she suffered her problems with legs and the problems of the Mexican society. Frida's character was complex and the film reflected it well.

Anyone interested in see this film should in anticipation read about Mexico's history and the major events of the early 20th Century.

After watching Frida for my Spanish class, I learned a lot about the history of Frida and what exactly her trade mark meant. The movie displays the life of Frida and what she meant to the Mexican culture. Through her artwork, her life with her husband and her illness is all portrayed. The time period was during the depression and world wars. A lot of her life during the movie is seen through a mirror signifying her life was shattered in the end. A lot of Mexican culture is shown through her husband, Diego, as well as Frida. The lady who plays Frida in the movie looks exactly like the original and does an awesome job being Frida. This movie has a lot to offer. It demonstrates the Mexican history, culture, and life of others during this time period. I would recommend using this film to teach students about Frida as well as the culture and history of Mexico.

Frida was an excellent movie to watch. I think many viewers interesting in watching a historical film would be pleased with this film because it has great way of showing different images that represented her life. This movie also recaptures and displays the life of a woman named Frida Kahlo. Frida played the role of a strong and independent individual who displayed her life through art. Throughout her life she suffers from a profound identity crisis. She suffered from severe health conditions to conflicts with her marriage(Diego Rivera). Her life was nothing but sorrow. Therefore, she had loved to display her pain and suffrage in most of her paintings. Her style in art is what made the movie so intense. Even though, the movie did not consist of much dialogue, each image in the movie had a great impact on the significance of her life.

I have watched Salma Hayek's movie before this one, so at the beginning I thought it was a terrible movie. When I was half way through it I changed my mind. Few words are spoken in this movie and many scenes are unrelated, and it was intentionally made this way. It doesn't want to provide us with a lot of information about Frida, Diego Rivera and Mexico at the time, but rather show us Frida's feelings in different situations; how she loved her father, wanted to have a baby,became tremendously happy when receiving the painting colors in the hospital etc.. The music helps us to understand and apprehend these feelings. Yet her character is poorly represented and so is her relationship with her husband. We see here every once in a while in somebody's else's arms, flirting with Trotsky and kissing some lady, but I really don't understand why. The movie was also a little bit boring. I give it 5 out of 10.

Frida is the story of a woman who has an obsession with the physical image of herself. During the course of the movie she suffers from a profound identity crisis. The viewer will immediately notice the lack of dialogue in this film. The absence of dialogue represents the fact that communication for Frida is visual, not verbal. Her works of art speak for her as she communicates her pain and suffering through her paintings. Frida Kahlo's obsession with her physical abnormalities drives her to paint herself disfigured and in pain and directly reflects her personal suffering. The viewer realizes that art is life for Frida. Art was the way in which she communicated but unfortunately, the public does not seem to get a firm understanding of her pain nor the manner in which she expressed herself.