While I had heard about Frida Kahlo a long time ago, I watched the movie Frida for the first time this semester. Up until this point, whenever I heard the story of her life people always chose to begin with her accident. While definitely an important part of her life, the moments before the accident also played a role in her relationship to art. By choosing to make her accident the beginning point of her life, it frames her life as one defined by pain and suffering. As if her art stemmed entirely from these defining factors. While this may be the case, I really liked that in the movie chose to begin a moment before the bus accident. It showed her as a preconscious young woman. I think this precociousness and fearlessness are of equal importance in her art as the pain that she dealt with her entire life.