At times, Andrew Dominik’s 'Blonde,' starring Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe, feels like a slaughterhouse seen from the animal’s point of view. Read BilgeEbiri's review
“In the movies, they chop you all to bits,” Ana de Armas’s Marilyn Monroe says about halfway through. “It’s like a jigsaw puzzle, but you’re not the one to put it together.” She’s supposedly talking about the way all movies are put together, but of course, it’s also a thinly veiled reference to the way this particular movie has been put together.
Dominik has structured the film largely around impeccable recreations of images from Marilyn’s career, but each recreation then gives way to something terrifying.is filled with beautiful sequences followed by images that cause actual pain to watch. The famous subway-grate sequence fromeffectively becomes an extended, slow-motion public peep show, as an endless sea of photographers and onlookers gawk at her.
The three central romantic relationships here — a delirious, extended threesome with gorgeous Hollywood scions Charles Chaplin Jr. and Edward G. Robinson Jr. ; a physically abusive marriage to Joe DiMaggio ; an emotionally codependent marriage to Arthur Miller — all speak to her ongoing efforts to define herself. The sons of movie stars may feel the oppressive pressure of having famous fathers, but to Norma Jeane, they at least know exactly who they are.
Whether in marriage or in other affairs, Norma Jeane rarely has any agency. The ground never feels safe under her feet. She is presented for the constant salivation of men, their enormous eyes leering and surreally engorged mouths gaping. And those are just the bystanders. When she’s introduced to studio head “Mr. Z” , he immediately bends her over and rapes her; I don’t think he even bothers to say hello. Later, she will be ferried into John F.
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