I also thought about this when I saw the film. I wasn't really familiar with this story. I MAY have heard about it a few years ago when it happened, but I can't recall. But either way, I think the age factor and time difference should have opened up some people's eyes about what likely happened between this girl and her father, and possibly her mother.
I'm certainly not bragging, but I am rather artistically inclined, to some degree, so I can see and appreciate art, even if I am not interested in the art piece, or don't actually even like it. But what they filmed her painting from start to finish is most certainly not in the same league as what she supposedly painted previous to that, when she was younger. If anything, her art should have improved in that year or two, or however long it was. You don't get worse the more you practice something. And "Oceans" or whatever the hell it was called, I don't remember the name of it, just looked like any old thing that any little kid could paint. Just give them a few paint brushes, a bunch of colors, and let them go nuts. You'd get similar results with anyone.
I came into this with an open mind, mostly because I didn't really know the whole story, so I could have gone either way with it. But I believe that Marla did have SOME degree of artistic talent, which is only natural, since her dad is a talented artists, and I know, because it also runs in my family. But he definitely helped her along the way. I think he let her paint, but more or less told her what to do. Marla is just too much of a regular, typical cute little girl to have created works that are as abstract and grand as what they tried to say she painted. She clearly didn't have the mental capacity to even understand what those paintings represented. Her dad just stuck a brush in her hand and told her what to do.
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