Much was expected blonde (blonde), the film in which the rise Anna d’Armi performs the Norma Jean / Marilyn Monroe combination, produced by Brad Pitt and previewed exclusively Netflix. But even the sex scenes for which she has been rated NC-17 in the United States (forbidden to minors) will not be an incentive for those who are willing to see her in their living room.
Because blonde it’s like, instead of big hits, big sneaky Norma Jean / Marilyn moments that you won’t be able to forget.
Or like an album of stickers that are missing perhaps not the most difficult, but some important ones.
It is a fiction based on real events. Let’s go through the rough facts and if you don’t want to know what you’ll see if you sit down to “have fun” blondeSkip a paragraph.
Norma Jean doesn’t know her father, she lives with her single mother, who in a fit of anger tries to drown her in a bathtub. She is cast in a movie by a powerful Hollywood studio boss whose name begins with her Z after abusing her in her office. She has two miscarriages, one to be able to work in Men Prefer Blondes (although she regrets it in the operating room) and another accidentally, and it is said that she should not throw up but swallow when she gives oral sex to the President of the United States. United himself. , John F. Kennedy.
Yes, with Mr. President a scene with sexual overtones was preferred rather than appealing to the remembered birthday party, which comes sensually out of a huge cake.
“Person and character needed each other,” Ana de Armas said at the Venice Film Festival, and so Norma Jean talks about Marilyn in the third person, as did Diego Maradona. The tortuosity that Norma Jean suffers is so great that between scene and scene it is hoped that the torments will cease.
Hand.
They do not stop.
The nearly 1,000-page novel by Joyce Carol Oates on which it is based is a mixture of fiction and real, but unauthorized biography.
Norma Jean is obsessed because she was an unwanted daughter and wishes to have a child as a way to transcend. Her script forces her to express it aloud on more than one occasion, just in case it isn’t clear.
Sex and no brains
The sex scenes, between the trio that makes up the blonde and two other unwanted children, “Chass” Chaplin and Edward G. Robinson Jr., aren’t even scandalous at this point in the 21st century.
The film by New Zealander Andrew Dominik, the director of helicopter Y The murder of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford– is, by far, his least successful and most insignificant, long and boring work. Yes. Can a film that tells moments in the life of the absolute sexual icon, in addition to the fact that she was a cultured and cultured woman, tire, overwhelm, but not annoy?
Dominik’s pretentiousness is … annoying. As Baz Luhrmann does in another biopic released this year, Elvis. She removes the seams, shows her camera – in a premiere, the picture shows fans and photographers with open mouths staring at the camera, not Marilyn, to give just one example; another: Norma Jean talks about her to her fetus, and he replies – and instead of being able to emphasize what she wants to express, she comes to the fore and pulls the viewer away from the plot instead of bringing her closer.
A not complex plot, but crossed by Norma Jean’s trauma of meeting her father – calling her two husbands “dad” is material for another analysis – and structured in scenes in which the characters that surround her are only sketches.
But if even Norma Jean / Marilyn doesn’t have depth, what to ask for the rest.
Is there a common thread missing so that everything does not lead to an end where closure must be hasty where, should they? converge all the topics previously addressed. The pattern, if any, of why some scenes are shot in black and white and others in color is also not very clear.
So, the only thing to save is the presence of Cuban Ana de Armas as Norma Jean / Marilyn. She is right about her in her characterization of her, but also in the way she tries to lay bare the soul of her character.
One last question: yes blonde Would it have had a streaming destination, wouldn’t it have been worth doing a miniseries? Because paradoxically it is long, covers little and never seems to end.
“Blonde”
Regular
Drama. United States, 2022. Original title: “Blonde”. 167 ‘, SAM 18. Of: Andrea Domenico. With: Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale. Available in: Netflix.
Source: Clarin
