BLONDE Review: Deconstructing Norma Jean into a tale of Decadence
One of the biggest icons of the XXth century, Marilyn Monroe, has finally got her long awaited biographical film. A film that its been surrounded by big controversy and has been despised by big part of Marilyn´s fandom. This non-biopic, is an adaptation of a semi-biographical fictional novel of the same name written by Joyce Carol Oates, So the approach of the film is not by any means a celebration of the myth or legacy of Marilyn but a ruthless portrayal of Norma Jean’s decadence, centering the story in her lack of a father figure, and her eternal quest of filial love. “Blonde” is a somber and deppresing journey that never gives an insight look of who Norma Jean really was, or how she became Marilyn Monroe. At any moment we get to know the woman or the myth, but we end up trapped in a tangled web of paranoia, […]