Few movies are as terrifying, brutal, and stunning as Andrew Dominick’s latest feature, Blonde. The closest I can relate to this is Darren Aronofsky’s mother! and Requiem for a Dream. Both are divisive, beautiful, and absolutely impossible to see only once. Blonde is a fictional biopic reimagined about Marilyn Monroe, a woman who can’t put the world to rest.Dominique raises Marilyn from her grave and gives her the worst life imaginable. . Featuring multiple scenes of rape, molestation, child abuse, sexual abuse, domestic violence, miscarriage, forced abortion, drug addiction, psychosis, and suicide, the film is far from a simple observation about Hollywood starlets. It’s a thing. But Dominique also makes sure that behind the Marilyn façade, Norma Jeane will always be the center of attention.And Ana de Armas is as glamorous a star as she is anguished. She shines as a woman.
But while it was easy for me to be hypnotized and influenced by blondes, others may find it highly exploitative. If you had to imagine a , why did it have to be the worst version? Her mother blamed her for her father’s abandonment and tried to kill her when she was a child, ending up in a mental institution, where she pressured Norma Jean to live in an orphanage. We cut to how she finally got her big break in movies thanks to a horrible, non-consensual deal with a powerful man. It can be difficult to follow the journey from one movie to the next if you’re not very familiar with the previous titles.
Ultimately, Blonde is a polarizing film, but it also serves as a vehicle for projecting the star quality of Ana de Armas. , avoid it. But if you really give up on that idea, think of it as the fictional Norma Jean story…of the world. Blondes are more than successful in my opinion.