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Eamon A @EamonTheChicken 4h OMG WOW... ITS NC-17 See more Lydia V @Vintagemovielover Dec 30 The movie blonde is a hate crime to Marilyn Monroe. As somebody who has read many biographies on her I was very excited for this movie. However this movie disrespected the icon that is Marilyn Monroe in every possible way. This was a fictional tale. I don't know who they were portraying but it was not Marilyn Monroe. Although the movie is visually stunning and the acting is wonderful but it cannot save it from the awful directing choices. The movie falls into terrible stereotypes about her, treats her like a one dimensional tragedy and fails to paint the woman she actually was. It was a very hard watch and I could not finish it. The movie also tends to drag on and stay at points that weren't important. Marilyn did not want to be a joke, this movie tried to make her one. See more Spencer F @NyuFilmDropOut Dec 29 To tell a story so thoroughly mythologized, Blonde chooses subversion over chronology. This is not a biopic in any traditional sense, but a psychological portrait, filtered through the haze of an unreliable gaze. The film is less concerned with Marilyn Monroe as historical fact than as an interior condition: a woman crushed beneath the weight of omnipresent scrutiny and grotesque commodification. Fame here is rendered as suffocation, its pressures felt viscerally through anxiety, fragmentation, and emotional collapse. We are not asked to admire, but to endure alongside her. Formally, the film is exacting and audacious. The cinematography is virtuosic, the editing and score exquisitely attuned to its shifting psyche, and the central performance nothing short of extraordinary. See more Sterling M Nov 9 This movie had huge potential — from Ana de Armas’s acting (aside from her accent) to the technical aspects. It could have been the best Marilyn biopic, but a horrible adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’s work ruined it all. See more Nas V @Jasminda Oct 6 Ana de Armas gave an extraordinary performance See more Heather Aug 27 Though this is based off of a book, not actually the story of Marilyn's life, I fear people who do not know better will believe this is based on her. I believe this does the legacy of Marilyn Monroe so very wrong, feeding into the negative stereotypes about her. Two stars because the acting, from what I was able to watch, was very good. This was extremely uncomfortable to watch, and I couldn't finish it...which is very rare for me. See more Read all reviews

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