Factory Girl

Recently I watched a film called Factory Girl, I thought that I would write a blog entry on it as I found the film very interesting and thought that it linked in well with my 1960's decade that I had recently studied in my fashion work at college. I previously studied Pop art which then related me back to Andy Warhol who was featured within the film.
I found the film very educational as it helped me to realise the life style of Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick, I thought that it was a very emotional film and had a lot of meaning to it. I though that it was very interesting watching a young glamourous icon such as Edie throughout the film watching how her lifestyle changes. She enters the film as quite sweet and pure, however she always had that daring flare. She then started to interact with more people and became much more known for her beauty as the film goes on I watched how the drugs and fame started to take over her and how different she then became.
I think that the ending is very sad and overwhelming when we see her talking to a councillor and how it shows the steps of her rehabilitaion and how it explains her last few years stuggling to cope with her drug addiction. It shows that she fell in love and married another patient and then less than four months later passed away of an overdose.
I enjoyed the film and thought the way that they had recreated the life of Edie Sedgwick was good and I was really intrigued by how the story was laid out.