Review of Blonde (2022) by Memoirabilia — 29 Sep 2022

This film’s title, Blonde, was a sure caveat broken record interpretation not beholden to the extraordinary legacy of Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn and Norma was cunningly coy, highly intelligent, well read, studious entertainer, tenacious entrepreneur, a natural empathic comedian with impeccable timing and wit.

At some point, the dumb blonde trope must stop; we are now an educated audience who are very aware of Marilyn Monroe’s zone of genius! In an era of feminine oppression and economic classism, Marilyn climbed out of the complexities of the impoverished orphanage to strategically reinvent herself in a man’s world as an Aphrodite, inherently birthing an evolution in pop culture for women throughout the 70s and decades to come, and yet over half a century later, we are still being subjected to this archetype gaslit pornographic misogynistic depiction of Monroe.