Blond on Netflix

[Anonymous]

Watched it last night. Terribly slow and way too psychological for my taste. I won't ruin it for those that may want to watch. Even setting aside the 2-3 oddly explicit sex scenes, there were some disturbing scenes IMO. In retrospect I should have just bailed but I kept hoping it was going to get better.

[Anonymous]

Loved the book (800 page of joyce carol oates not for everyone of course) but waiting on reviews before watching

[Anonymous]

I just finished and have a few thoughts.

1. It wasn’t nearly as graphic or disturbing as I was hearing. It’s certainly graphic for Netflix, but most of the scenes people are talking about are very quick, some are even blink and you miss it moments. The longest and IMO most disturbing one is with JFK.

2. A whole lot of whining about a Cuban accent I never detected! Did anyone else pick it up? Granted I was often multitasking and not giving this my full attention, but I didn’t hear it.

3. Slow, boring, art house movie, so I’d never watch it again. But it was beautifully shot and the score was phenomenal. Not like I’d listen to it separately, but for this it was very effective.

4. I have such mixed thoughts about fictionalizing real people. It’s art, ok, I don’t want to dictate what should or shouldn’t get made. But it’s not like a reimagined “What if…” of her life to see how things could’ve been different. It’s just “What if we force her into EVEN MORE traumatic events that never happened and rewrite entire parts of her life to make her suffer MORE?” It’s trauma porn and I feel gross having watched. But I knew what I was getting into there.

[Anonymous]

It was not at all what I was expecting and not sure how I feel about it. The actress does a very good job but I didn't feel like she was Marilyn even though she looked the part and her mannerism were spot on. She is very, very good actress though and probably get closer than any other actress that has tried.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just finished and have a few thoughts.

1. It wasn’t nearly as graphic or disturbing as I was hearing. It’s certainly graphic for Netflix, but most of the scenes people are talking about are very quick, some are even blink and you miss it moments. The longest and IMO most disturbing one is with JFK.

2. A whole lot of whining about a Cuban accent I never detected! Did anyone else pick it up? Granted I was often multitasking and not giving this my full attention, but I didn’t hear it.

3. Slow, boring, art house movie, so I’d never watch it again. But it was beautifully shot and the score was phenomenal. Not like I’d listen to it separately, but for this it was very effective.

4. I have such mixed thoughts about fictionalizing real people. It’s art, ok, I don’t want to dictate what should or shouldn’t get made. But it’s not like a reimagined “What if…” of her life to see how things could’ve been different. It’s just “What if we force her into EVEN MORE traumatic events that never happened and rewrite entire parts of her life to make her suffer MORE?” It’s trauma porn and I feel gross having watched. But I knew what I was getting into there.

I don’t know that the story made her life worse. Accounts of both child and adult sexual abuse, foster care, and serious abortion/miscarriage/fertility issues and drug issues were real.
I am conflicted about whether stuff like this is trauma porn though. I do think social media, reality TV and all the fricking true crime podcasts has made me a lot more uncomfortable with writers and artists telling of other people’s real pain *without permission* than i used to feel, fictionalized or not.

[Anonymous]

Ana de Armas is incredible! What a moving and transformative performance!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just finished and have a few thoughts.

1. It wasn’t nearly as graphic or disturbing as I was hearing. It’s certainly graphic for Netflix, but most of the scenes people are talking about are very quick, some are even blink and you miss it moments. The longest and IMO most disturbing one is with JFK.

2. A whole lot of whining about a Cuban accent I never detected! Did anyone else pick it up? Granted I was often multitasking and not giving this my full attention, but I didn’t hear it.

3. Slow, boring, art house movie, so I’d never watch it again. But it was beautifully shot and the score was phenomenal. Not like I’d listen to it separately, but for this it was very effective.

4. I have such mixed thoughts about fictionalizing real people. It’s art, ok, I don’t want to dictate what should or shouldn’t get made. But it’s not like a reimagined “What if…” of her life to see how things could’ve been different. It’s just “What if we force her into EVEN MORE traumatic events that never happened and rewrite entire parts of her life to make her suffer MORE?” It’s trauma porn and I feel gross having watched. But I knew what I was getting into there.

I don’t know that the story made her life worse. Accounts of both child and adult sexual abuse, foster care, and serious abortion/miscarriage/fertility issues and drug issues were real.
I am conflicted about whether stuff like this is trauma porn though. I do think social media, reality TV and all the fricking true crime podcasts has made me a lot more uncomfortable with writers and artists telling of other people’s real pain *without permission* than i used to feel, fictionalized or not.

I think it is. I've just been watching it and ugh. I've had to stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just finished and have a few thoughts.

1. It wasn’t nearly as graphic or disturbing as I was hearing. It’s certainly graphic for Netflix, but most of the scenes people are talking about are very quick, some are even blink and you miss it moments. The longest and IMO most disturbing one is with JFK.

2. A whole lot of whining about a Cuban accent I never detected! Did anyone else pick it up? Granted I was often multitasking and not giving this my full attention, but I didn’t hear it.

3. Slow, boring, art house movie, so I’d never watch it again. But it was beautifully shot and the score was phenomenal. Not like I’d listen to it separately, but for this it was very effective.

4. I have such mixed thoughts about fictionalizing real people. It’s art, ok, I don’t want to dictate what should or shouldn’t get made. But it’s not like a reimagined “What if…” of her life to see how things could’ve been different. It’s just “What if we force her into EVEN MORE traumatic events that never happened and rewrite entire parts of her life to make her suffer MORE?” It’s trauma porn and I feel gross having watched. But I knew what I was getting into there.

I don’t know that the story made her life worse. Accounts of both child and adult sexual abuse, foster care, and serious abortion/miscarriage/fertility issues and drug issues were real.
I am conflicted about whether stuff like this is trauma porn though. I do think social media, reality TV and all the fricking true crime podcasts has made me a lot more uncomfortable with writers and artists telling of other people’s real pain *without permission* than i used to feel, fictionalized or not.

I think they definitely added trauma — her mother trying to drown her, the throuple, rapes by both Mr. Z and JFK. There’s plenty about her life that’s traumatic without those added in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ana de Armas is incredible! What a moving and transformative performance!

She was REALLY good. How do actors recover after "acting" so sad and miserable, with real tears.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just finished and have a few thoughts.

1. It wasn’t nearly as graphic or disturbing as I was hearing. It’s certainly graphic for Netflix, but most of the scenes people are talking about are very quick, some are even blink and you miss it moments. The longest and IMO most disturbing one is with JFK.

2. A whole lot of whining about a Cuban accent I never detected! Did anyone else pick it up? Granted I was often multitasking and not giving this my full attention, but I didn’t hear it.

3. Slow, boring, art house movie, so I’d never watch it again. But it was beautifully shot and the score was phenomenal. Not like I’d listen to it separately, but for this it was very effective.

4. I have such mixed thoughts about fictionalizing real people. It’s art, ok, I don’t want to dictate what should or shouldn’t get made. But it’s not like a reimagined “What if…” of her life to see how things could’ve been different. It’s just “What if we force her into EVEN MORE traumatic events that never happened and rewrite entire parts of her life to make her suffer MORE?” It’s trauma porn and I feel gross having watched. But I knew what I was getting into there.

Ana de Armas was really amazing, some of the scenes were extra well acted, like when she was auditioning and got so into reading the part.

I only once or twice barely caught an accent, they really made it sound worse in the media. I would have been mad to pay at a theater for this, but it was a good netflix option.


Hope none of this is too "spoiler-y"
The stuff with the babies was weird AF. Didn't like that one bit. Funny her calling guys Daddy.

[Anonymous]

I read the Joyce Carol Oates book when it came out and didn't like it. I watched the movie, because I was curious about the actress and thought it sucked, too.

[Anonymous]

I thought it was good.

[Anonymous]

The NYT had a scathing review of this yesterday. It sounds dreadful and I won’t be watching.

[Anonymous]

Watched it last night. Ana de Armas and Adrien Brody were great, and the music and costumes were good but otherwise it just wasn’t a good movie. The stuff with the fetuses and the “vagina cam” was just bizarre. It was dark and disturbing and reduced Marilyn to nothing but an abused piece of meat. Horrible. And when I read that the director really didn’t know anything about Marilyn or her movies, that settled it. Terrible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just finished and have a few thoughts.

1. It wasn’t nearly as graphic or disturbing as I was hearing. It’s certainly graphic for Netflix, but most of the scenes people are talking about are very quick, some are even blink and you miss it moments. The longest and IMO most disturbing one is with JFK.

2. A whole lot of whining about a Cuban accent I never detected! Did anyone else pick it up? Granted I was often multitasking and not giving this my full attention, but I didn’t hear it.

3. Slow, boring, art house movie, so I’d never watch it again. But it was beautifully shot and the score was phenomenal. Not like I’d listen to it separately, but for this it was very effective.

4. I have such mixed thoughts about fictionalizing real people. It’s art, ok, I don’t want to dictate what should or shouldn’t get made. But it’s not like a reimagined “What if…” of her life to see how things could’ve been different. It’s just “What if we force her into EVEN MORE traumatic events that never happened and rewrite entire parts of her life to make her suffer MORE?” It’s trauma porn and I feel gross having watched. But I knew what I was getting into there.

I don’t know that the story made her life worse. Accounts of both child and adult sexual abuse, foster care, and serious abortion/miscarriage/fertility issues and drug issues were real.
I am conflicted about whether stuff like this is trauma porn though. I do think social media, reality TV and all the fricking true crime podcasts has made me a lot more uncomfortable with writers and artists telling of other people’s real pain *without permission* than i used to feel, fictionalized or not.

I think it is. I've just been watching it and ugh. I've had to stop.

I felt the same way and stopped watching partway through. It does feel like trauma porn.