![]() What in Blonde’s depiction of the relationship is true to reality? What veers into fiction? Here’s a quick explainer.Ģ022 © Netflix How did Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio get involved? In Blonde, it’s pretty much all seen as ugly: We watch Bobby Cannavale's DiMaggio abuse Ana de Armas’s Monroe both verbally and physically, belittling her when she’s already reached a mental lowpoint. But their romance, split, and later-in-life friendship has long captivated the public. With a Hollywood output as rich and productive as Monroe’s, and a private life splashed across tabloids, it can be easy to forget all about DiMaggio. ![]() She wants agency-she just can’t seem to get it. ![]() Monroe (real name: Norma Jeane Mortenson) struggles and fails to get out from under the character the rest of the world has set for her. The plot is structured around a series of cascading traumas suffered by Monroe that circle back on each other in a dizzying, sometimes powerful, sometimes mind-numbing cycle. Directed by Andrew Dominik ( Killing Them Softly), the rare NC-17-rated feature functions as a “dream film” as much about Monroe’s image as her actual life, according to Dominik. ![]() ![]() Blonde, based on the novel by Joyce Carol Oates, is heavily fictionalized yet assembled from a spattering of well-researched truths. ![]()
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