Review: Andrew Dominik’s adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates novel is a morbid, leering and tasteless abasement
Although her Spanish accent peeks through at times , de Armas fully inhabits Monroe’s woundedness and vulnerability. Dominik often re-creates familiar images from newsreels and Monroe’s most famous movies, in which de Armas slips seamlessly into character.
“Blonde” suggests that Monroe’s most authentically loving relationship might have been a three-way she enjoyed with Charles Chaplin Jr. and Edward G. Robinson Jr. , two knockabout alcoholics who recognize her as Norma Jeane rather than Marilyn.
Later, at the premiere of the film, he portrays the gathered reporters, photographers and gawkers — mostly men — as grotesques, their mouths agape in obscene rictus grins. It’s “The Day of the Locust,” and we, the audience, are the biggest pests, a conceit that’s not only facile and cliched but unearned. Monroe might have been damaged, but she was so much more than a trope for the kind of revelatory abasement Dominik dishes out. She certainly deserves more than a dumb “Blonde.
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