Review of Blonde (2022) by Alejandraabad — 08 Oct 2022
Awful. The director Exploits Ana De Armas and Marilyn Monroe’s memory. Horrible storytelling with fictional events that never occurred, this fake biopic written by a women should never be given to a male director.
It gets one star because the art team did a wonderful job. I hate how the director used Ana de Armas, she’s a great actress yet the director reduced her to someone that was engaged in the male gaze and the director made her do awful things that never happened to Marilyn Monroe.
Why would you fictionalize a woman’s trauma? The movie establishes that Hollywood is cruel to women but the director uses women and gets away with it? The director is obsessed with abortion, he shows the baby in her while they perform the abortion the director chooses to show the inside view of a vagina and also there’s a terrible CGI baby that lingers too long for too many scenes.
It is not okay the choices he made with her autonomy. Also why do we need to see inside her? Marilyn who suffered injustice, why be cruel to her memory? The movie is cruel and objectifies Ana de Armas and depicts Marilyn’s trauma through cruel fiction and is not at all subversive at all.
Mind you that Ana de Armas was objectified in Blade Runner in a dystopian future. Uncomfortable, cringe depictions and not at all what and who Marilyn was. Don’t watch it.
This review of Blonde (2022) was written by Alejandraabad on 08 Oct 2022.
Blonde has generally received mixed reviews.
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