REVIEW | Marilyn Monroe non-biopic Blonde is impressive at times and more than a little icky at others | News24Arts
This highly fictionalised life story of one Norma Jean Baker, better known to the world as Marilyn Monroe, tells how a traumatised childhood with a mentally ill mother and lack of a father figure did not stop Norma Jean from becoming world-famous. Still, it informed everything from her early drive towards success, her catastrophic relationships with men, her descent into drug-fuelled paranoia and her tragic death at only 36. Based on the novel by Joyce Carol Oates.
Worst of all, while the real Norma Jean Baker was a very tragic figure, and she was working in a system that was already pretty brutal to women – especially beautiful women – the way she is portrayed here gives her even less agency than she had in real life. It certainly captures little of the strength and grace she is known to have shown as she navigated the"Golden Age" of Hollywood. Certainly, this Norma Jean never ever seems actually to enjoy being Marilyn Monroe.
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