Review: ‘Blonde’ may be a brutal watch, but the film is a bold and complex reimagining of Marilyn Monroe’s life.
is boldly and complexly mounted, but that technique—so brazenly applied by Dominik—could actually be in service of something far simpler, and more base.is a film partly about exploitation that might be exploitative itself. If the film is aware of that meta function, then there’s something interesting happening in it.
But as much as Dominik appreciates Monroe on those merits, he eventually puts her through a nightmarish ordeal leading to her death. That is probably somewhat reflective of what really happened in her life, but it’s harrowing and relentless on film. Therein might lie the film’s meta dimension: even its fond, compassionate consideration of Monroe can’t help but eventually turn that attention and ardor into something destructive.
Dominik stages that fever in ever-shifting collage. Sometimes the film is in black and white, other times in rich color. The aspect ratio changes from time to time, sound cuts in and out. There isn’t any discernible pattern to the film’s switches—I thought for a while that maybe one color palette was meant to indicate when the private, “real” Monroe, familiarly known as Norma, was taking focus, rather than the practiced Marilyn persona, but that doesn’t really sync up in the film.
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