‘Blonde’ Director Says His Film Is Not Anti-Abortion: ‘People Feel Very Protective of Her, and I Think That’s Part of the Problem’
thewrap.comNC-17 rating or star Ana de Armas’ accent, but writer-director Andrew Dominik doesn’t see any truth to claims his movie is anti-abortion.
In fact, he sees the point of his film as directly addressing the “rescue fantasy” he feels many of the film’s detractors are experiencing.“The film is concerned with the meaning of Marilyn Monroe I guess a bit more than the documented reality, but I think what the film is really about is, I think everything to do with Marilyn Monroe is kind of a rescue fantasy,” Dominik told TheWrap in a recent interview about the Netflix drama. “It’s all written with this feeling that, ‘I understood her, I alone,’ and, ‘If I was there, this wouldn’t have happened.’ You see that in the Norman Mailer book, I think you see it in the Gloria Steinem book, and I think you see it in the movie ‘Blonde.’ And I think you also see it in the people that dislike the film, because they’re also trying to rescue her.
They’re just trying to rescue her from me. But I think that when you have the desire to rescue somebody, probably the person they most need rescuing from is you (laughs).”The film – which puts the viewer inside the mindset of Monroe through dreamlike and impressionistic visuals and storytelling – graphically depicts Monroe as undergoing multiple forced abortions.
But some of the film’s critics have pointed to scenes in which an unborn fetus pleads with Marilyn not to abort it as making an anti-abortion statement.When asked what he says to claims that the film is anti-abortion, Dominik said he believes these criticisms are a product of the specific political moment the world is currently experiencing.“What the movie is saying is she’s not seeing reality.
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