It's not exactly a good biopic, especially compared to Walk the Line. Its narrative isn't coherent enough, and that's what I've seen. And I don't know this woman well, and for Pop fans, this movie might be even less of a fit. Naturally, Sienna Miller doesn't have that youthquake beauty. Not much is known about Andy Warhol either. So I watched this film on the basis of zero knowledge.
What a beautiful girl Edie used to be. A girl who went from Cambridge to New York with a dream of art. What I didn't know, however, was that this beautiful girl was sexually assaulted by her father at the age of eight. Witnessed the death of his brother.
It was Andy who made her beauty stand out.
One person in the '60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known.
The fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love.
Andy Warhol said.
Edie ditched sculpting for Andy's experimental film.
I don't understand their feelings. Just know that Edie is a person who easily trusts others. What she wants is not fame, but the love of her friends. She trusted Andy as her friend. But I can't speculate on Andy's feelings. As he himself said very close to a certain kind of love, he always said she was so beautiful that it made me think that his love for Edie is like an artist's love for a work of art. Then Andy's reaction later when Edie and Bob Dylan are very close can be seen as possessive towards the artwork. But that doesn't seem to be the case at all. Andy brought Edie home again for dinner to meet his mother. Maybe why he said it was a certain kind of love, maybe because it was two kinds of love fused together that he couldn't even distinguish himself.
The film has a strong subjective color of the director. His attitude towards Andy was undoubtedly critical. Look at me! You look at what you've created! Andy just stood there and said nothing. He was wearing sunglasses, and I could only see his eyebrows, slightly wrinkled, and there was no casual expression on his face. But I don't understand what he's thinking, is it just a pity for a destroyed work of art? I don't think so. What he said to the priest later, on the surface, he just didn't understand why Edi chose to go ugly, but in fact he wanted to ask why she left him. She fell in love with Bob Dylan, and Andy ruined her. Or, it was the shadows of the past that ruined her. At the end of the film, Edie ends her life, and Andy is asked about Edie in an interview. This section feels that Andy has been avoiding this question until she has passed away, and he is also trying to hide his feelings, trying to use "It" was so long ago, you know, I hardly know her at all" to "be detached", but he still cares after all, he knows it will be much better to forget, but he can't forget. In the end he could no longer lie to himself, and he had to look away to keep the tears from flowing. He remembered their conversation when they were together:
-I wander if people cannot remember us.
-After we're dead?
-Yeah.
-I think peopele will talk about how you change the world.
.....
Edie is exactly what he said. Andy Warhol is remembered more, and people talk about him changing the world. Knowing that today, people still remember this genius of pop art. The July issue of City Illustrated also featured Andy Warhol. However, Edie left us early, what she left us was once, her beauty, compared with Andy's art, is fleeting.
Look again at Bob Dylan. I don't know how it is in reality, but in the film, he, as the only person who knew Edie and Edie ever loved, did not try hard to save Edie who was gradually falling into drugs. He was just disappointed, he could have done more. Maybe then Edie can be happy and peaceful like every girl. However, Bob married another woman, which was undoubtedly the biggest blow to Edie.
And Syd, Edie's former friend, why didn't she appear until she was completely occupied? And cruelly took out the picture of the beautiful girl who used to be, put it in front of the girl who is no longer beautiful, and asked:
Do you remember her? Is
this the world, no one said to her "Compared to the young and beautiful you , I prefer your vicissitudes of appearance now"?
What's more, she was just a girl who needed love, she was only 28 years old when she died.
People took what they wanted and left her to destroy her.
And she is such a passionate girl, she believes in them so much, she believes they are as beautiful as herself.
So she lived like this until her soul was hollowed out, until she was abandoned by everyone.
I'm thinking about her last marriage, it should be a happy one. Although marrying a patient is more likely to return to drug use. But at least it should be happiness, wherever that happiness leads.
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