A fabulist’s tale of cruelty, objectification, pain and control.
However, while those at times indulgent, nonliteral movies had a grand emotional sweep that probed the women’s psyches, this one feels hollow and left me cold, despite the visual splendor and a committed turn from Ana de Armas as Marilyn.“Blonde” amounts to one brutally horrible moment after another — many of which might not have actually happened. Knowing she’d written a novel and not a real biography, obfuscating Oates didn’t even use the figures’ real names. The film follows suit.
“Blonde” imagines that Marilyn Monroe , Charlie Chaplin Jr. and Edward G. Robinson Jr. were in a throuple.Joe DiMaggio, a k a the Ex Athlete , beats her in a fit of rage after he sees the famous airy white dress poster from “The Seven Year Itch.” Joe DiMaggio, referred to as the Ex Athlete , beats Marilyn when he sees the poster for “The Seven Year Itch.”There’s so much anguish, we eventually become numb to it over the nearly three-hour film. We come to know her only as a victim, not a fleshed-out person. Is that take enlightening? Meh. Entertaining? Not really. Long? Extremely.
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