Laughing In The Wind 200110/29/2022 ![]() ![]() #Laughing In The Wind 2001 crackedThe only jokes that are cracked are directed at Marilyn, life being the cruelest possible joke played on a woman who thankfully died young before she was abused and exploited any more. There is no sunshine or humour in Blonde. Piece by piece, the mystique of Marilyn Monroe is unravelled in this joyless film. Blonde doesn’t spare us any of the sordid details from Joyce Carol Oates novel on which this sprawling monsterpiece is laid out. ![]() The more she ran away from her ritzy destructive image, the more it chased her.Īnd therein lies the secret to the conundrum that was Monroe, and by extension the blizzard of bizarre images, some in black-and-white others in colour sometimes in of tormented visual signposts of a mind on the brink. So she just clung to whoever offered her a shoulder, only to realize that the men in her life worshipped the illusory hallucinogenic image on the screen which the real Norma Jean got more and distanced from. In Blonde, director Andrew Dominik is determined to avoid all the clichés that have grown around Monroe’s magical mystical persona (except the dress billowing in the air which couldn’t be avoided) of the Doomed Hollywood Superstar, the candle in the wind who didn’t know whom to cling to when the rain set in. I expected Elton John’s song to pop up somewhere in Netflix’s monstrously ambitious masterpiece Blonde about the life and many death of Marilyn Monroe.īut no. “Goodbye Norma Jeane, it seems to me you lived your life, Like a candle in the wind, Never knowing whom to cling to ,When the rain set in…” Elton John’s haunting ballad Candle In The Wind on Marilyn Monroe. ![]()
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