Frida(2002)

This is a film directed by Julie Taymor.The story is about a Mexican painter,Frida's whole life.She has two important incidents in her life,as she put it,one is her car accident and the other,Diego,who is the worst man ever.Frida has a serious car accident when she was young.She lies on the bed for a long time and the worst thing is that she can't even walk again.The day she lies on the bed,she starts paining self-portrait,her parents,sisters and relatives.Later,she even manages to walk again.Then she goes to find a great painter,Diego at that time in order to ask his opinion of her paintings.Diego thinks that her paintings are special and she should continue to paint.They become comrade,colleague and friend forever.Frida goes to his studio and they make love.(They actually love each other)

Then they get marry.Frida's mother doesn't really like Diego because she thinks he will bring Frida trouble in the future.And the main reason is that he has married twice and divorced twice.She says that they are just like dove marries to the elephant!!

After they marry,Diego tells Frida in the morning that he lets his ex-wife live with them until she finds a place to live.Frida is so angry that she has a fight with his ex-wife.But later,they become friends and Diego's ex-wife tells her that he never belongs to anyone.He belongs to himself.
Diego and Frida then go to New York together because he is offered a job there,which has something to do with paintings.Frida has to put up with Diego's affairs with lots of women.She tells other women that she is used to those affairs.Later,she gets pregnant,but she had a miscarriage and will never be pregnant again.She's so desperate that she paints a picture that describes her feeling of losing a baby.Diego burst out crying when he saw the painting.

She goes back to her parents' home because her mom is seriously ill.She notices the bruises around her sister,Christina's eyes.Christina told her that she left her husband.Later,Frida's mom died and she goes to her funeral.

 Diego is a communist .Heonce paints Lenin on the wall,but the manager asks him to repaint.He refuses to give up his principle,so he loses this job.At the same time,Frida asks her sister(Christina)to come over helping cleaning up Diego's studio. Frida takes Chrifinding thatstina's children out to amusement park,however;she came back finding that Diego fucks her sister.Now,she's totally giving him up.She shouts out to Diego that YOU'RE JUST AN ANIMAL!!Feeling so down,she left Diego and cut her hair short.She indulges in drinking and smoking in order to ease the pain.

Later,Diego asks her for helping his friend,Trotsky(a philosophy).He wants Frida to let Trotsky stay in Frida's old house for a while.She agrees and is then having an affair with Trotsky.However,Trotsky's wife notices that and asks to leave Frida's old house with Trotsky earlier before it's too late.

Frida had a fight with Diego since her affair with Trotsky.She then goes to Paris and she writes letters to Diego very often to show him that she adores him still!!When she comes back and meets Diego again,he tells her that he wants to go to California and he wants a divorce.Though Frida is sad,she lets him go.Later,her toes are cut because the doctor afraids that the disease will affect to her whole legs.Just as she feels that her life is a misery,Diego comes back to her and asks her to remarry to him!!And her reply is:YES!!

In the last scene,she is so sick that she has to lie on the bed all the time.That day is her own exhibition,but the doctor warns that if she goes,her tracheitis will turn into pneumonia.Therefore,Diego goes to her exhibition and explains her works for her.Surprisingly,Frida manages to come to the exhibition by having people moving her bed with herself lying on the bed.The film ends with a painting depicts that Frida sleeps silently on her bed and suddenly the fire burns them all into ash!!

I believe that she is a special painter.She 's honest and courageous to her miserable life even though she has a serious car accident.I like her strong will and her paintings because what she had painted is something inside,not outside.She expresses her strength ,sorrow and experience in her paintings.We should learn from her and never give up hope when what you 've encountered is just something trivial!!Cherish life and always look on the bright side:D

The Piano(1993)

This is a film written and directed by Jane Campion.The story begins with a woman called''Ada'' who hasn't spoken since she was six.She lost her husband by accident and then her father arranges her to remarry to Alistair who is a pioneer in Newzealand .She then goes there by boat with her daughter,Flora along with their belongings and piano,which is the most important thing in her life.Alistair takes a crew and his friend Baines to help them carry all the things home.Unfortunately,Alistair refuses to carry the piano because they don't have people to move such a heavy Piano.Even though Ada uses sign language to tell her daughter that she can't leave the piano here,Alistair insists that the piano remains right here on the beach.

Later,she goes to Baines house with Flora and asks him to take them to the beach.At first,he says''I can't do that.''He still takes them there in the end.Ada plays her piano and Flora dances on the beach.They both enjoy the happy moment there.However,Baines makes a deal with Alistair.He wants to exchange some lands he owns for the Ada's piano.He also requests for a piano lesson from Ada.Alistair agrees and tells Ada that she has to teach Baines piano.She is so furious,but she has no choice.She then asks Baines what he wants to learn,but he replies that he simply just wants to hear her playing the piano.Whenever she plays the piano,he is just lying on the bed watching and doing nothing.

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Then Baines offers Ada a way that she can get her piano back,which is to do things he saks,he wants.He tells her''one key at a time'' and she can take her piano back.What Baines wants is to touch her,kiss her and he even asks her to lift her skirt up higher in order to see what's inside.Ada feels reluctant but she did what he told her to.

One day.Baine saw Alistair and Ada holding hands watching Flora's performance.He is very upset and leaves early.Ada is quite happy about that because she intends that Baines should keep away from her.
The Next day,Baines tells Ada that the piano lesson is over and he gives the piano back to her.He then says that he wants Ada to care for him,but she didn't.He feels like he is a whoremaster.Her husband then stops the worker from carrying the piano bake home.He wants to know what happened indeed and he rushs into Baines'.He just told him that he's giving back piano to her and Alistair doesn't have to return the lands to him.Alistair feels relieved,of course!!

The wired thing is that when the piano is back,Ada doesn't play that much.Her husband doesn't understand why.One day,she walks to Baines house.Baines is surprised and says''what wind brings you here'' jolkingly?He shouts out loud''if you come with no feelings,then GET OUT''!!Ada then slaps him across the face.She came here because she loves him.They kiss each other and make love after a fight.Just as they are enjoying their time,Alistair happens to see them making love throuh the gap of the wall.He heard Baines saying that if Ada loves him,she should come again tomorrow.Alistair stops Ada from going to Baines' the next day.

Her husband is so angry that he decides to lock Ada in her room and she is not allowed to go to Baines' anymore.After that,she acts like she is losing herself.She plays the piano with her eyes closed at midnight.She goes to her husband's room and touches his body.When he touches her,she suddenly pulls away.Later,Alistair decides to take off all the lodges on the door and windows.He tells Ada that he trusts her and he believes that she won't go to see Baines.

She then take one of the keys out of the piano and she inscribes some words on it:Dear Geroge,(Baines)You have my heart,Ada Mc Grath.''She asks her daughter help her deliever to Baines,but unfortunately she gives it to Alistair whom she regards as father.Alistair is losing his temper and he rushs home.He takes an ax AND CHOPS Ada's index finger off.He warns that if she goes to see Baines again,he will chop off her finger each time she visits him.(This is the most sad scene that I have ever seen.He 's definiely a beast.how can he be so cruel?He says that he's only chopping her wings off,but nooo.He's chopping off her life!!She expresses her feelings and words through playing the piano and this has already been part of her daily life.I'm crying when he cuts her finger off.Love is inevitable and if someone you adore doesn't love you,you should let him/her go.Set others free and also set yourself free because you can still find the right person in this world.Hurting someone you love or killing yourself is just narrow-minded!!This is what I've learned from this film.)

Alistair runs to Baines' house at midnight and points a gun on Baines' head.He told Baines that he heard Ada saying some words from her head not mouth.She said:I have to go,let me go.Let Baines help me go.Therefore,Alistair angrily shouts out that he wants Ada to go and Baines as well.He wants to wake up in the moring and feels everything is just a dream.

The following day,Ada,Flora and Baines are on the boat with their belongings and the piano in the middle .However,Ada says that she wants to pull the piano over the boat.She then ties her feet with the loop of the rope which is connected to the piano.When the piano is pulled over the boat,she herself is also dragged down to the water.HER WILL CHOOSE A LIFE.She tries to get the rope off.What a death!What a chance!What a hope!!

Later,Ada and Baines have a happy life together.He makes a metal finger and gives that to Ada so that she can play the piano again!!In the meantime,she's learning speaking.At night,she thinks of her piano that's silent in the deep sea.
Though she is silent and quiet,she expresses her modes by playing the piano.It's like her happiness,sorrow and anger all added into the music that she plays.I thing being quiet and silent is not that bad at all because people with these kind of characters can sense every details in life and they are truly an artist in themselves!!They're probably not talktive whilst they are a good listener!!
When it comes to love,I will think of a word''mutual.''If love is not mutual,then two people are just a stranger or purely a friend.You can not force someone to love you,but you can bulid up a good relationship with him/her.Love will find the way!!

At last,I would like you to listen one of the piano songs from this film.this song called ''The Heart asks picture first'' and is written by Michael Nyman.Enjoy the soft and calm music:D

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