10 Movies That Hated You For Watching
7. Blonde
To the casual movie fan scrolling through Netflix in late 2022, a Marilyn Monroe biopic starring Ana de Armas probably seemed like a must-watch. But anyone expecting a glossy, sexy, melodramatic encapsulation of Monroe's life and untimely death were firmly slapped around the face by director Andrew Dominik, who effectively made an anti-biopic which chides audiences for seeking entertainment in a troubled woman's deeply sad life story.
Largely eschewing the glitz and glamour of Monroe's Hollywood career, Blonde is instead an extremely dark and upsetting character study which actively attacks the very idea that audiences knew anything about Monroe, the human being, at all.
It is a film filled with imagery intended to turn off all but the most ardent cineastes - especially a controversial sequence in which Monroe talks to her unborn CGI fetus.
By the end of the gruelling 166-minute runtime, it couldn't be clearer what Dominik thinks of our collective desire to see Monroe's life story adapted into ephemeral Content.