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Post by politicidal on Oct 2, 2022 19:56:40 GMT
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Oct 4, 2022 1:15:54 GMT
I'm a Monroe fan and I liked it, because it is not really about her.
It's a highly stylised, fragmented (it constantly switches aspect ratios and changes between B/W and Color) psychological horror film filtered through the myth of celebrity. It's closer to Repulsion, than a biopic.
A lot of people don't like it (2.2/5 on Letterboxd) and I can appreciate it's not going to appeal to everyone, but I thought it was a worthwhile experiment.
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Post by Nora on Oct 4, 2022 5:15:13 GMT
I'm a Monroe fan and I liked it, because it is not really about her. It's a highly stylised, fragmented (it constantly switches aspect ratios and changes between B/W and Color) psychological horror film filtered through the myth of celebrity. It's closer to Repulsion, than a biopic. A lot of people don't like it (2.2/5 on Letterboxd) and I can appreciate it's not going to appeal to everyone, but I thought it was a worthwhile experiment. interesting, didn know it was a horror movie now I am more intrigued. although the ratio changes shtick does not appeal to me at all
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Oct 4, 2022 6:08:49 GMT
I'm a Monroe fan and I liked it, because it is not really about her. It's a highly stylised, fragmented (it constantly switches aspect ratios and changes between B/W and Color) psychological horror film filtered through the myth of celebrity. It's closer to Repulsion, than a biopic. A lot of people don't like it (2.2/5 on Letterboxd) and I can appreciate it's not going to appeal to everyone, but I thought it was a worthwhile experiment. interesting, didn know it was a horror movie now I am more intrigued. although the ratio changes shtick does not appeal to me at all It's one interpretation, and I stress "psychological". The final act in particular leans in that direction. I'm usually not a fan of changing aspect ratios. I didn't like it in The Grand Budapest Hotel for example. Here it's a lot more random, but somehow it sort of worked. Perhaps it reinforced the "fragmentary" feel I mentioned. A very cautious recommendation as it's proving to be very divisive.
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Post by Nora on Oct 4, 2022 9:07:00 GMT
interesting, didn know it was a horror movie now I am more intrigued. although the ratio changes shtick does not appeal to me at all It's one interpretation, and I stress "psychological". The final act in particular leans in that direction. I'm usually not a fan of changing aspect ratios. I didn't like it in The Grand Budapest Hotel for example. Here it's a lot more random, but somehow it sort of worked. Perhaps it reinforced the "fragmentary" feel I mentioned. A very cautious recommendation as it's proving to be very divisive. i left Grand Budapest Hotel mid movie 🤪 (and I love Wes Anderson movie normally but this was simply too much, completely overstylized/ overdone.
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Post by mecano04 on Oct 4, 2022 10:36:07 GMT
I'm a Monroe fan and I liked it, because it is not really about her. It's a highly stylised, fragmented (it constantly switches aspect ratios and changes between B/W and Color) psychological horror film filtered through the myth of celebrity. It's closer to Repulsion, than a biopic. A lot of people don't like it (2.2/5 on Letterboxd) and I can appreciate it's not going to appeal to everyone, but I thought it was a worthwhile experiment. interesting, didn know it was a horror movie now I am more intrigued. although the ratio changes shtick does not appeal to me at all Well, it's not horror in the Hellraiser or Texas chainsaw massacre sense but rather that everything is done to make you feel her despair or confusion. It might feel somewhat Hitchcockian but it's never like Batman getting the Scarecrow treatment or Spiderman facing Mysterio (the illusion/hallucination part in Far from Home). It stays within the boundaries of what's believable, for the most part, like witnessing and feeling what having a panic attack is.
It's true the aspect ratio changes but it's not like quickly watching a slide show with pictures alternating ratio every two pictures. It's noticeable but you're not gonna get a headache from it.
I agree it may not be a movie for everyone though and I expanded a bit on that on page 2 of this thread.
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Post by Nora on Oct 21, 2022 19:35:09 GMT
interesting, didn know it was a horror movie now I am more intrigued. although the ratio changes shtick does not appeal to me at all Well, it's not horror in the Hellraiser or Texas chainsaw massacre sense but rather that everything is done to make you feel her despair or confusion. It might feel somewhat Hitchcockian but it's never like Batman getting the Scarecrow treatment or Spiderman facing Mysterio (the illusion/hallucination part in Far from Home). It stays within the boundaries of what's believable, for the most part, like witnessing and feeling what having a panic attack is.
It's true the aspect ratio changes but it's not like quickly watching a slide show with pictures alternating ratio every two pictures. It's noticeable but you're not gonna get a headache from it.
I agree it may not be a movie for everyone though and I expanded a bit on that on page 2 of this thread.
its much better than i thought. a real cinema. genuine art. grear craft and amazing acting from Ana, Oscar nom should be hers.
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Post by Vits on Nov 17, 2022 23:46:25 GMT
BLONDE is about how Marilyn Monroe's sex symbol status caused people (mostly men) to not take her seriously as an actress or even as a person... but hey, you don't need me to tell you that. The movie makes that very clear early on, but for some reason, it constantly goes back to that point. The situations are different, but the context is the same. However, the repetitiveness and the shallow approach to this real-life figure don't overshadow Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody and Xavier Samuel's performances. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' music score is good, but the song selections are jarring. I understand that some of them are happy and upbeat as a contrast to the tragedy happening on the screen, but there's a right way and a wrong way to do that. There are times where Andrew Dominik's directing choices feel inspired and creative, and also times where they feel pretentious and distracting. There are times where the dialogue he wrote is dramatically entertaining, and also times where it's unintentionally funny. Many people thought that the scenes where Marilyn imagines the fetus she's carrying were anti-abortion propaganda. I couldn't see it from that point of view... because I was too concentrated on how silly it all looked! And when the fetus talked to her, I started laughing!
5/10
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Post by politicidal on Dec 5, 2022 0:33:09 GMT
The director on the film's reception:
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Andrew Dominik shared his thoughts on the unexpected backlash against his Marylin Monroe drama Blonde during an In-Conversation event at the Red Sea International Film Festival on Sunday.
The feature, starring Ana de Armas as the tragic, iconic actress, divided critics when it world premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September and then received an avalanche of criticism when it dropped on Netflix on September 28.
He admitted he had been taken aback by the response at first.
“I was expecting critical success, and then that no one would see the film. That’s what I’m kind of used to, films that have a positive critical reaction, and then people don’t see it. Blonde was kind of the opposite, at least in America,” said Dominik.
“America was where it was worst. They hated the movie. They were angry about the film. They were outraged by the film, but a lot of people saw it, so, I was kind of surprised by it.”
Dominik said he had not let the criticism get to him.
“Criticism only hurts if you agree with it. And I didn’t really agree with any of it. I think the film is great,” he said.
“You can’t really do other people’s thinking for them but I think when it comes to an iconic American, what they want is hagiographies, they want the celebration of that person, and a celebration of that person according to the mores of the time,” he said.
He suggested his portrait of Monroe had not chimed with themes of female empowerment that are popular right now.
“We’re living at a time where it’s very important to present women as empowered, and they want to reinvent Marilyn Monroe as an empowered woman, you know, that’s what they want to see,” he continued.
“And if you’re not showing them that then it upsets them,” he added. “Americans don’t really like you to monkey with their myths too much. They very often want to jump to the solution without actually looking at any of the trauma.”
Dominik batted back suggestions by critics of the film that he had exploited Monroe.
“This is kind of strange because she is dead. The movie doesn’t make any difference to her in one way or another,” he said.
“What they really mean is that the film exploited their memory of her or their image of her, which is fair enough. That’s the whole idea of the movie, it’s trying to take the iconography of her life and put it into the service of something else. It’s trying to take things that you’re familiar with and turn the meaning of them inside out.”
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Post by politicidal on Jan 23, 2023 16:20:54 GMT
It's leading the Razzies this year.
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Post by hi224 on Jan 24, 2023 5:37:15 GMT
It's leading the Razzies this year.
Razzies are a joke.
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