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Movie Review: I Shot Andy Warhol

I feel very strange about Andy Warhol. I've been to the Andy Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and there is some really neat stuff and some really uninteresting stuff. I have a hard time believing that all of it is supposed to be serious, or interesting. So the most interesting part of this movie to me were the scenes in "The Factory" where Andy was interacting with others, or other people were involved in creating the art. It seems like such a different world, and I wonder if that distance is because of the time or because of my lack of involvement with anything like that.

Of course, it isn't a good sign for the movie if I'm wondering about this during most of it.

It's hard to make a movie based on a real story since real stories do not follow the standard dramatic rhythm. And this movie suffered from that - lots of buildup, lots of background, and then a somewhat sudden shift in personality and the title even happens. While Valerie always seemed off, it was hard to see the steady progression of her character. And maybe there was none, she was probably crazy after all, but it makes it harder to really get in to the movie. Almost as if a documentary would have been more interesting. I'd be interested to see what the movie and TV appearance were really like. And hear what people that had interacted with her really felt. I'm sure some of that was conveyed in the film, but you know everything in the movie can't be exactly true, so you are left trying to figure out what the real story probably was underneath all of the movie exterior.