Interesting commentary on the '60's FACTORY GIRL

I just watched FACTORY GIRL, a film about Edie Sedgwick, who was a Harvard art student who left to become involved with Andy Warhol's "Factory" in NYC. It's a biographical film about her decline and eventual death. I post about films on IMDB and got this interesting response from someone who seems to have been involved with the making of the film.
Patty

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You raise an interesting point. It is exactly what my intention was for this film. If you listen to my commentary, you will hear me talk about how my film was an attack against the 1960s -- which is also why I felt it got skewered by critics (that is a different subject entirely). There has been a trend for sometime now to romanticize that period. My own personal views tend to me a bit more conservative. I felt the 1960s was a very corrosive and destructive era, an era of amorality and spiritual detachment. To me Warhol embodied that. Not only did he serve as a patriarch for the postmodern movement, but he represented to me everything that was sour about the 1960s. He represented the icy, amoral narcissism that devoured anything in its path. Even though Edie was a glorious fashion icon of that era, her spirit and innocence was really more from a bygone era. Though she projected great strength through her charisma, her interior life was fragile and embodied a more delicate time. It was that vulnerability let loose in the ravenous climate of the 1960s which ultimately led to her immolation. That was what the Andy/Edie relationship was all about -- in my view. My film was a valentine to that idea, and subsequently caused quite a bit of controversy.