FREE ON YOUTUBE I Shot Andy Warhol

FREE ON YOUTUBE When Andy Warhol pondered that everyone would be famous for 15 minutes, he certainly didn't think that Valerie Solanas would gain fame for 15 minutes by shooting at him. It was June 3, 1968. Solanas went armed in Warhol's factory and fired on the most famous American artist. One of Warhol's assistants asks if she had met anyone. Not just "someone"! Later, the police ask Solanas why she did it. She had her reasons, Solanas replies. Director Mary Harron and actress Lili Taylor now deliver the portrait of a possibly schizophrenic woman. From her bad childhood to the moment of justification before the police. So her plot seems to be a logical consequence of what happened before. Solanas was abused as a child and worked as a prostitute to finance her college. Nevertheless, she develops a kind of weird humor. She writes a column about women reproducing without men. And plays. She is gifted. Then she takes her boyfriend, the transsexual Candy Darling (Stephen Dorff), to Warhol's Factory. She likes Warhol (Jared Harris) and plays in his films. She even writes a play for Warhol, but it's behind a couch in the Factory. Solanas reacts offended and angry. Turning point. Solanas dives into her own world. Girlfriends like Stevie (Martha Plimpton) try to help her - but in vain. The paradox: Solanas doesn't seem unappealing, sometimes even moving! Warhol, on the other hand, is a passive man. A factotum. Art and sexuality - he produces all this through images, without human contact. Quite differently Solanas, who engages her very own life LEBT! But everywhere feminists seem to steal their ideas! When she is "excommunicated" in Warhol's factory, she returns armed. The great Lili Taylor plays Solanas. Crazy, but not irrational. Taylor is the swarm of our colleague Marie from the video store. Marie is obsessed with Taylor. She knows all the movies! And rightly so! Lili Taylor is the indie icon of the 90s! Her role selection proves how intelligent and stylish Taylor is. and versatile! Probably some of you won't like I Shot Andy Warhol. True to the motto; the story of a hysterical lunatic. I would see the movie that way: Even the most absurd behavior ultimately serves only one strategy: to find love and recognition. This is exactly what Solanas is looking for.