![]() It presents her as a well-read, thoughtful, and insightful actor whose artistic ideal and dream remain the theatre, and-in the movie’s best scene-she explains why. It also indicates that Hollywood offers little outlet for that artistry, and, instead, corners her into roles centered on her sexual allure. The movie presents Marilyn as a thrillingly talented actor who, long before her experience with the Actors Studio, delves deep into personal experience and emotional memory to deliver performances of a shocking intensity. The movie’s emblematic moment shows her looking at a photo of herself-of Marilyn Monroe-in a magazine and saying, “She is pretty, but she isn’t me.” Yet the film never gets close to suggesting who, indeed, the real person is. They mistake her Marilyn Monroe persona for her real self, even though she considers it a pure product for public consumption, having little to do with her real personality. Her adoring fans are slobbering perverts who demand her sexiness onscreen and her grateful adoration in public appearances. Paparazzi and the press intrude on her private life. (The movie doesn’t name DiMaggio or Kennedy but identifies them unambiguously by their traits and their roles in Monroe’s life.) Kennedy (Caspar Phillipson) she is abused by the Secret Service on his behalf. She is sexually assaulted by President John F. She is the victim of her two husbands during her years of fame: Joe DiMaggio (Bobby Cannavale), who wants her not to work, is fiercely jealous, and is physically abusive and Arthur Miller (Adrien Brody), who vampirizes her for his work. Z (David Warshofsky), who rapes her and then rewards her with roles of an agent who crafts her persona and forces her to conform to it of producers and directors who underpay her and stereotype her as sexy and dumb of her two lovers in a threesome, who use and abuse her confidences. As Marilyn Monroe (Ana de Armas), she is the victim of a studio boss, Mr. As a young woman, she’s the victim of photographers who take pictures of her in the nude. ![]() The child Norma Jeane Mortenson (played by Lily Fisher) is the victim of her father, who never wanted her of her mother (Julianne Nicholson), who is mentally ill of neighbors who deliver her to an orphanage. “ Blonde,” adapted from the eponymous novel by Joyce Carol Oates, has a single idea: that, throughout her life, Monroe was victimized. ![]() The very subject of the film is the deformation of Monroe’s personality and artistry by Hollywood studio executives and artists in order to tell that story, Dominik replicates it in practice. It depicts Monroe as the plaything of her times, her milieu, and her fate, by way of turning her into the filmmaker’s own plaything. In an effort to decry the protagonist’s sufferings, “Blonde” wallows in them. The movie is ridiculously vulgar-the story of Monroe as if it were channelled through Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ.” The character endures an overwhelming series of relentless torments that, far from arousing fear and pity, reflect a special kind of directorial sadism. Even if “Blonde,” written and directed by Andrew Dominik, had offered a sympathetic and discerning view of the private life of Marilyn Monroe, it would have been a cinematic disaster.
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