Let me start off by saying, I love any and all kinds of movie, I can go into any theatre with an open mind.
That said, what were they thinking? I asked myself this question many, many times. The movie begins in an interesting enough way, with Arbus visiting a nudist colony that she would photograph. The film then jumps back three years to before she was a photographer, and she was nothing more than a half-alive house wife in Manhattan.
Now the fun begins. A mysterious masked man moves into the top floor of the Arbus family apartment building, and Diane is immediately fascinated by him. Who is this strange visitor? None other then Chewbacca! straight from Star Wars Episode III for your viewing pleasure. He seems to have learned English pretty well for the movie.
Actually, it's just a man named Lionel with a disease that makes him grow hair all over his body. He and Arbus become fast friends, being drawn to one another's unconventionality. We are led to believe that Lionel is the one who introduces Arbus to the world that would one day become the subject of her photography.
My question is; didn't Arbus have a fascinating enough life that there was no need to make up this ridiculousness? When I saw the "imaginary" part of "Fur: An Imaginary portrait of Diane Arbus" I thought, well they probably filled in a couple of blanks in her life to make the movie flow better. Don't make my mistake, the story is completely ridiculous and just plain scary at parts. I can only imagine that somewhere, Diane Arbus, like myself and many others, is going "what where they thinking?"
That said, what were they thinking? I asked myself this question many, many times. The movie begins in an interesting enough way, with Arbus visiting a nudist colony that she would photograph. The film then jumps back three years to before she was a photographer, and she was nothing more than a half-alive house wife in Manhattan.
Now the fun begins. A mysterious masked man moves into the top floor of the Arbus family apartment building, and Diane is immediately fascinated by him. Who is this strange visitor? None other then Chewbacca! straight from Star Wars Episode III for your viewing pleasure. He seems to have learned English pretty well for the movie.
Actually, it's just a man named Lionel with a disease that makes him grow hair all over his body. He and Arbus become fast friends, being drawn to one another's unconventionality. We are led to believe that Lionel is the one who introduces Arbus to the world that would one day become the subject of her photography.
My question is; didn't Arbus have a fascinating enough life that there was no need to make up this ridiculousness? When I saw the "imaginary" part of "Fur: An Imaginary portrait of Diane Arbus" I thought, well they probably filled in a couple of blanks in her life to make the movie flow better. Don't make my mistake, the story is completely ridiculous and just plain scary at parts. I can only imagine that somewhere, Diane Arbus, like myself and many others, is going "what where they thinking?"