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