Factory Girl – the life of Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick

I’ve read his diary and I’ve watched a movie about him and yes, Andy Warhol is a weird guy. But he is a nice guy too…I think.

After that day we studied Warhol’s diary, a friend of mine got hold of a movie called “Factory Girl” which basically is about Edie Sedgwick who is closely related to Andy Warhol. They were attached but not clearly…only an unspoken bond..I never thought Warhol ever like a women before as Dr Edwin told us he was gay. So it seems he wasn’t gay before the death of Edie in 1971 I assume. But he is still weird though.

I like the movie very much. The movie staring Sienna Miller as Edie and Guy Pearce as Andy Warhol tells about the typical scene of the high life of superstars then and even applicable nowadays too! Edie was born rich and she basically never knew what planning money was. She was an artist but troubed..a symbol of tragic women before her time…she died in 1971.Being a son of a coal miner, probably that is why Andy knows his way in life. He was generous that he let his staffs of the ‘factory’ stayed there for free and that was when the conflict of the movie occurred. The mean folk singer (I really hate that character) criticize his generosity and artist who never much cared of being famous, Andy never expected payment for his work and as for the mean singer, he was expecting high payment for everything he does.

There were scenes in the movie when it shows the different lifestyle of Edie and Andy. She would go to a restaurant and order salmon and other expensive stuff on the menu but Andy only ordered a peanut butter sandwich…The life of Edie and Andy were very different but they manage to be together for a long time, Edie herself admit that Andy was her first love and Andy too mention that Edie was a special figure in his life.

Really, by the end of the movie, I learned that money can really ruin us. Having lots of money basically made Edie took life for granted. She never did appreciate it as much as others. And when she loses it, her life became miserable. Money can really rule us, it really can…like the lines from the poem “Heir Conditioning”, money is your new God.