Blonde

No amount of bleach can clean up the tarnished life of Marilyn Monroe in Blonde. This purely
factionalized film, based on the Joyce Carol Oates novel of the same name, is totally
depressing. Monroe’s life is portrayed as a train wreck and you can’t take your eyes off of it.

Blonde offers a dismal, pitiful representation of Marilyn Monroe. Producing a film on an iconic individual, much less a movie star, presents a problematic, controversial endeavor. The public has an image of the person, often accompanied with an emotional investment in their representation. That’s the daunting challenge embraced by director Andrew Dominik in Blonde, his adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ freewheeling book on Marilyn Monroe.