‘Blonde’ Director Explains the Netflix Film’s Ending: ‘It Was Just What I Believed’
thewrap.comNote: The following contains spoilers for the ending of “Blonde” and discussion of self-harm.Filmmaker Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe film “Blonde” is now streaming on Netflix after years of anticipation and controversy, and when it comes to depicting Monroe’s demise at the end of the movie, Dominik had to make a decision about what he believed happened to her.As the film comes to a close, Ana de Armas’ Marilyn Monroe is in a fragile emotional state when she receives a package from former lover Cass (Xavier Samuel), which he left to her when he died.
The box contains a memento from her childhood and a letter which reads, “There never was a Tearful father,” suggesting all those letters she received from her “father” were from him.
Monroe is heartbroken, and the film then shows her taking an overdose of pills, after which she dies. The closing shot of the movie conjures a famous photograph of Monroe’s body.While theories abound that Monroe was murdered in an effort to save face for John F.
Kennedy (and that theory is given credence in the source material for the film, the Joyce Carol Oates book of the same name), Dominik told TheWrap he didn’t ever consider depicting her as being murdered.“I don’t believe that she was murdered.
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