Frida Kahlo

Frida is a Film in which a prominent Mexican painter, incomparable legend, who involves in a lonely life. Frida is a woman marked by the physical and psychological suffering by diseases, injuries, accidents, feelings and thoughts. She projects the figure of a woman destined to pain, her schemes deviate from an evasive and cruel reality reflecting in a little introspective way the projection of her unconscious content on her paintings. Frida seems to represent a narcissistic personality, this is denoted by the expression of complacency, her very personal bias plays a synthesis of elements characterized by her expressionism and surrealism, which reflects the deformation of her reality. The projection of her loneliness, her misery and bitterness, are seen as a vehement desire of changing.

Frida (Salma Hayec) is a happy, friendly and full of life woman. She was funny person, she used to go out with her friends, and also, she had a boyfriend. She had good relations with all the people and she was also a little bit curious. She used to be like that, until she had the accident on the tram. Her personality changed since that time, she became interested, but not in a bad sense. Interested in the way of seeing and living the life. She began to worry about what really interested her. Despite having problems walking, she found a job to help her parents due to the situation that they were going through. She began to paint, and decided to dedicate her life to it. Then she met Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), who would later became her husband. They had relationship issues that caused their separation. This caused that Frida changed her personality again, becoming an authoritarian person, stopped caring about her own feelings, which were reflected in her works. In this way the protagonist (Frida) behaved during the filming, changing every moment, but expressing the same at all times.

One of the achievements of the film is the meticulous set scenery, making revive places both of Mexico City and New York and Paris in the interwar and postwar last of the last period. In addition to figures like Rivera, Siqueiros and Trotsky the Modotti, the second part shows briefly several luminaries of the pictorial world, from Breton and Duchamp to Kandinsky and Picasso, which help the film Frida Kahlo to be known. Its popularity is achieved this way, despite the scant originality of her pictures, which many believe these come from a huge traditionalism,bordering on naive style, as on their altarpieces, as well as in marked narcissism of the painter, since most of her motives are self-portraits, or groups where she appears.

With appealing, suggestive and misunderstood personality, Frida in her time, despite reflecting a cruel reality, Frida Kahlo is enshrined with natural joy. Unhappy with the events that occurred during her life, she seems as a happy, lively and controversial woman. Despite being a brave woman, it's symbolically

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