When Norma Jeane grows up to be Marilyn Monroe (Ana de Armas), every third word she says is “daddy.” Much of the film involves meeting an odious parade of Marilyn’s father figures/lovers. The madness commences when single mother Gladys (Julianne Nicholson, playing it way over the top) drives a frightened young Norma Jeane (Lily Fisher) into a wildfire and, when the road is blocked by a cop, she says, “I wish you would shoot me.” Gladys gets packed off to a home for the feeble minded shortly thereafter and Norma makes a parodic trip to the orphanage, screaming, “I have a mother and father!” as she’s committed.Īccording to this film, that girl will spend the rest of her life trying to figure out who her daddy is. If only this were an adaptation of Frank Ocean’s brilliant 2016 album “Blonde” we’d be in for a much more chill experience. Director Andrew Dominik sought and found controversy with his new film “Blonde,” a portrait of Marilyn Monroe based on Joyce Carol Oates’s 738-page doorstop (witch was breathlessly blurbed from the likes of Playboy magazine and Jeanne Moreau in 1990).
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