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How much do you know about Marilyn Monroe? There are, of course, the undeniable greatest hits: the hair, the lipstick, the billowing white dress. But maybe you also believe that she had an affair with JFK, or an affair with his brother RFK, or that the CIA killed her. Or was it the Mafia? Or a Kennedy?
The point is, it’s very easy to know a lot about Monroe without knowing anything at all. She’s familiar enough for us to feel like we should have an opinion on her, and sufficiently unknowable for that opinion to be just about anything. And so we come to, the latest production to take on Monroe, who, as the film poster notes, was “watched by all, seen by none.”has certainly drummed up a level of controversy befitting its subject, even if it’s mostly courtesy of director Andrew Dominik.
These moments offer glimpses of a better, brighter, fresher film. When Monroe is negotiating a higher rate for her role inas she points out, she is the blonde being preferred – we see another personality, one which demonstrates a shrewdness and humour that must have been necessary for her to endure as long as she did at the level she was at. Those scenes, largely when de Armas is alone or staring herself down in a mirror, suggest that Monroe actually had three dimensions.
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