What Makes A Life Reflected In The Film Frida's Story?

A life meeting a good man and making a happy family with him and baby might be ordinary path of life that most women hope. But, the things that is so natural for some women could be too difficult to achieve for someone else. The film Frida introduces the someone else, Frida Kahlo. Frida strongly desired health, love and baby for her entire life, but she could not entirely achieve any of these because of the three key incidents happened to her, which are the car accident, her husband Diego’s constant affair with other women and miscarriage. Her life was full of unfortunate incidents so she had to go through all kinds of hardships that ordinary people easily cannot imagine. She was largely frustrated whenever the incidents occurred, but she never gave up her life, but rather she
She created an extraordinary artwork by expressing the pain she experienced through painting. Specifically, Frida had a severe car accident on the way back to home in a bus when she was eighteen and this unfortunate incident made her begin painting. More specifically, the scene where she had a car accident and surgery in the beginning of the film effectively shows how the condition was serious and fatal. Frida was pierced by the trolley’s metal handrail, which entered her lower body and exited through her vagina, tearing its left lip. She got serious injured in her every part of body. As the author mentioned, “her spinal column and pelvis were each broken in three places; her collarbone and two ribs broke as well. Her right leg, the one deformed by polio, was shattered, fractured in eleven places, and her right foot was dislocated and crushed” (Collins). Because her every joint were severely broken, doctors presupposed that she could not be able to walk, and even hard for her to survive. The scene where Frida screamed when the nurse approached to her to give an injection shows how Frida suffered a