Warning: This article contains potentially distressing discussion of abuse, including sexual abuse and violence against children.
SPOILERS INCLUDED Blonde WHILE WATCHING Netflix’s Marilyn Monroe Biography Surprised Yellow Earning an NC-17 rating, the film’s release proves that Ana de Armas’ vehicles are more than just infamous ratings. director andrew dominique Yellow is gaining mixed reviews and sparking debates online about the line between sensationalism and sincerity. A three-hour epic chronicling the life of Marilyn Monroe, Yellow Based on the controversial novel of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates.
Like the original novel, Yellow Don’t shy away from the dark side of Marilyn Monroe’s tragically brief life. That said, thrill-seeking viewers may be surprised by the (relative) lack of erotic scenes, since YellowNC-17 rating. Rarely accepted into mainstream cinema, the NC-17 rating is a US MPAA rating that prohibits audiences under 17 from viewing the work. While this may not sound like a big deal, releases from major studios rarely receive an NC-17 rating and often cause studios to resend the edited film.
However, the creators of the Marilyn Monroe biopic controversially chose to keep the NC-17 rating and avoid any edits to preserve the film’s story. This has become a point of great controversy Yellowreleased and now the movie has landed on Netflix, obviously Yellow Not only did it receive an NC-17 rating. While nowhere near as violent as many mainstream films, and not as clear-cut as some viewers would expect (although it does feature a lot of nudity), Yellow In its suffocating depiction of sexual exploitation, it’s powerful, dark, and persistent enough to warrant an adult-only ban rating. To be fair to these heavy topics, the often-discussed ratings are certainly well deserved.
Why Blonde’s NC-17 Rating Is So Controversial
The NC-17 rating has been controversial since its inception, as many mainstream cinemas refuse to show movies with terrible ratings. American psychology, brave Heartand even director Wes Craven’s famous teen killer scream Originally rated before being cut makes those R-rated titles more accessible. However, most films that receive an NC-17 rating are art films and foreign-released films have obscene content meaning they are always potentially controversial, for example: bad lieutenant, humiliation, dreamer, narcissismoned Lust of Lust. With this company, assign a rating to the movie, for example: Yellow Perhaps surprising.
Why Blonde Justifies Its NC-17 Rating
Yellow between the two factions. On the one hand, the Marilyn Monroe biopic is a mainstream movie starring an Oscar-hungry A-list star. On the other hand, Yellow From the whimsical Andrew Dominik and everything from its three-hour runtime to its intricate relationship with reality (Yellow Based on the novel by Joyce Carol Oates, inspired by the real life of Marilyn Monroe, which means this is clearly not a traditional biopic) branding the film as an art title unusual technique. YellowThe film’s countercultural goodwill certainly justifies its NC-17 rating.
Yellow The film opens with a long, gruesome scene in which Monroe’s young mother tries to drown her daughter in a bathtub. Later, Yellow Includes traumatic scenes where Marilyn was verbally raped by John F. Kennedy under the influence (mostly filmed from the President’s POV) and filmmaker rape scenes. Monroe’s abortion was filmed from an experimental POV that placed a camera on her cervix as the procedure was performed, a grim clinical approach that will continue until after the procedure. YellowAccount of Monroe’s suicide overdose. Although it depends on each audience YellowMonroe’s depiction of trauma is handled responsibly or subtly, and it’s clear that the film’s adult-only rating is justified.
Yellow Monroe is depicted as a victim of abuse by her mother, her husband, the President of the United States, and countless romantic partners. Yellow And making this biopic a hard-to-watch, brutally dark film. Spectacular gore and excessive shock in even the most brutal films can make audiences remember they are watching a movie, YellowThe decision to further downplay the star’s trauma, which happens over and over again and brutally to an innocent protagonist, creates unsettling effect for the film, and it doesn’t even fit the bill. young audience.