Andrew Dominik's Blonde utterly fails in bringing the complex and nuanced novel to the big screen.
Editor's Note: the following contains spoilers for Blonde.There is much that is disappointing about Andrew Dominik’s blunt and brutal Blonde. A rare NC-17 Netflix film, it first premiered earlier this month at the Venice International Film Festival to what can be generously described as mixed reviews. Centered on a fictionalized version of the iconic actress that was Marilyn Monroe, here played by Ana de Armas, it is a work that is one-note in a way that its source material was not.
The Movie Is a Shallow Imitation of the Book When compared to the novel, an infinitely more dynamic story that is still not without its critics, the film is woefully lifeless and empty. Considering that Oates herself was drawing from Monroe’s cinematic legacy and reimagining fundamental aspects of her life, seeing it done again makes for a strange experience that ultimately can’t hold a candle to what preceded it.
Any ability to explain this away as being the point of the story is impossible to swallow when it just keeps hammering the point home. While there are some faithful recitations of specific lines of dialogue from the novel, they play as approximations more than anything. The selection of scenes are entirely ones of misery, rendering their impact largely moot when that is all the film is.
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