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Blonde (2022)
Gives the audience no trust to connect dots... or joy. Painfully slow and boring
Ana de Armas is excellent, as well as the others in the cast. Cinematography was also beautifully crafted. But, the movie itself as a whole was painfully slow and boring, trying too hard to be deep. Too bad, I really wanted to like it.
Interestingly enough, Brad Pitt was a producer on this film. 😂 Which harkens me back to the film "By the Sea", 2015 - starring, along side Brad... wait for it: it's Angelina Jolie (who directed/Yikes).
... could those bizarre, repetitious "baby-lost" moments be Brad's input on BOTH FILMS? I always gave that weirdness over to Angelina for "By the Sea". However, if Brad Pitt was a producer on "Blonde", and his other film had the same slow and repetitious baby-lost theme, we may have to look to Brad Pitt for his influence over this clearly malfunctioning, (never played an instrument, and no concept of music or timing, i.e., a metronome) director and script writer ...whats his name? Pitt could be where (some/alot) of the mystery lands. Worse yet, prob Jolie's influence over Pitt and after over that director, who did not think up weird baby, repetitious moments without Pitt. It's the same slow over done theme as "By the Sea". I know "Blonde" will get much more chatter than it deserves. Trust me, it's heavy handed and just plain boring.
In sum, this film doesn't trust the audience to connect the dots, thus slow repetitious concepts that Marilyn was indeed used. Yes, we know. Got it. But "Blonde" gave Marilyn's memory just a dusty brushing. Never allowing for Norma Jean just a moment of shine. Nothing.
... but any PR is good PR... right Brad? Well, you (Angelina/both?) make pretty good rosé wine. Santé! Need I say more? Perhaps we shall wait for the directors of tomorrow to rip into Angelina as viciously as they did Marilyn. Brad, will you direct?
Great Performances: Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Natica Jackson (1987)
Watched on Amazon. Weird film. Fun to to watch big stars in their fledgling state. Sound was sooo bad and barely understandable and the film stock was very blurry, and....
Watched on Amazon. The sound was sooo bad and barely understandable. Yikes, the film stock was very blurry, top it off with a disjointed script and bad direction....wow you have something you MUST watch (if only to wonder who knew who to get this piece of "art" filmed).
Apparently this was a TV movie....so, there you have it. Nevertheless, a must see "to see" big stars from 1987 who were not that big yet, a la Michelle Pheifer. And for film students around the world: study this film and learn what not to do. Worth watching.