Sunday 2 October 2022 05:15 AM Emily Ratajkowski SLAMS Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde for 'fetishizing female ... trends now
Emily Ratajkowski lambasted the new Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde for 'fetishizing female pain, even in death.'
She posted a TikTok video denouncing the Netflix film starring Ana De Armas - while admitting she has yet to actually watch it.
The 31-year-old, who recently left her allegedly unfaithful husband, argued that 'anger' is more difficult to 'fetishize' and thus declared herself to be in her 'B**** Era.'
Not having it: Emily Ratajkowski lambasted the new Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde for 'fetishizing female pain, even in death'
Denunciation: She posted a TikTok video denouncing the Netflix film starring Ana De Armas - while admitting she has yet to actually watch it
'So I’ve hearing a lot about this Marilyn Monroe movie Blonde, which I haven’t seen yet, but I’m not surprised to hear that it’s yet another movie fetishizing female pain, even in death,' Emily began her TikTok monologue.
Her perspective appears to have been colored by the bad reviews of Blonde, which has sharply polarized the critics to the tune of 43% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Wall Street Journal called the film 'one long slog into sadness and more-than-predictable tragedy,' the New York Times accused it of 'exploiting Marilyn Monroe for old times' sake' and the New Yorker slammed it as 'ridiculously vulgar - the story of Monroe as if it were channeled through Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.'
Moving forward: The 31-year-old, who recently left her allegedly unfaithful husband, argued that 'anger' is more difficult to 'fetishize' and thus declared herself to be in her 'B**** Era'
Come to think of it: In a more reflective mode, she remarked that 'as women, I mean I can say for myself for sure that I’ve learned how to fetishize my own pain and my own hurt in life'
Slings and arrows also came from overseas, with Australia's News.com.au calling the movie 'two hours and 46 minutes of agony after agony,' India's NDTV dismissing it as 'unrelentingly bleak' and Ireland's state broadcaster RTE saying: 'The nearly three-hour slog feels like yet another brutal layer of exploitation of the 20th century icon.'
Emily, having evidently read the press around the film, said: 'We love to fetishize female pain. Look at Amy Winehouse, look at Britney Spears, look at the way we obsess over Diana’s death, the way we obsess over dead girls and serial killers. Watch any CSI episode and it’s like this crazy fetishization of female pain and death.'
