BlondeRshll6.1· October 8, 2022FollowBlonde is in fact, a horror film. Since the first teaser and trailer had been released I was excited for this movie, especially as someone who finds interest in the glamor and legendary stories of Old Hollywood. Or rather, the 'mythical' stories, now that i've seen how it's up to us to turn true stories into fables and real people into subjects of matter. But I had also been eager to witness the mesmerizing cinematography and creative directing I had seen in the trailer. And that is one of the major positive characteristics of this film I have to take into notice. But besides the visually stunning aspects, the writing of Blonde was a major reasoning to why I categorize this film as a horror. Besides Marylin having to utter the word "Daddy" every time she's in frame, the over all construction of the script makes it seem as if Marylin herself was mentally challenged, not a result of the immense media attention, but of her own doing. One of the characters, Whitey, say's "I'm going to conjure Marilyn within the hour, I promise." Conjure, is what had stuck with me. Blonde separated Marylin Monroe, a stage name, from the actress Norma Jeane, as another way of creating a false narrative of Marylin, and giving her characteristics of someone with Borderline Personality Disorder.Which, on the same note, brings us to the story of Marylin's mother, Gladys Baker. Overlooking the fact that the beginning of Blonde had been shot in the actual childhood home of Marilyn Monroe, I felt that the scene of her mother drowning Marylin in the bathtub was too significant of a plot point to have been fictional. Writers need to be sensitive to story changes in a biopic to avoid creating an entire new outline of the character. Before watching Blonde, I had presumed Marylin was going to be sexualized to an extent, based on the knowledge that she was during her career. But the extensive and immoderate amount of sexualization in the film plays a factor into naming Blonde a horror. In Marylin's 1955 film 'The Seven Year Itch' a specific scene caught global attention, and became one of, if not her most, notable piece. In Blonde, the emphasize on the line "Isn't it delicious?" when referring to the breeze from the subway, is repeated while shots of Marylin's crotch, behind, and male paparazzi erotically applauding, her fill a sequence. Besides Ana De Armas, the actress playing Marylin, being nude for a significant amount of the film, the story between Monroe and the President at the time, JFK, was briefly covered. The only time throughout the film they appear together on screen is during one of the Presidents business calls, while Marylin sexually pleasures the President as statements like 'dirty slut' and 'dirty girl' are made. In final statements, Blonde was not about Marylin Monroe. Rather a separate story, about a mentally challenged and overly sexualized film star who's in search of a paternal figure, while being brutally tormented by the media. Blonde is a beautiful horror. Or as Marilyn's character had referred to it while departing from the bed half naked and lathered in blood; an ugly, crazy, dreamCommentsSign in to react and join the conversation.Sign inGet the app