Maybe there is, that is, how she lived as an ordinary person. Behind the countless gossip, she is wanton and frantic, or sweet and lovely. How she existed in the world as a person, not an object. This is the story of My Week with Monroe.
The most sensible thing about "My Week with Monroe" is that it doesn't tell the story of Monroe's lifelong ambitions from beginning to end. It's just too hard, and most of the gossip is so familiar to us that we don't need to revisit it on screen. The movie selected a very small but very moving and memorable week.
It was like opening a flickering white gauze window. From that window, we saw a perhaps more real Monroe, a 30-year-old woman standing at the crossroads of life, at a loss, loved by everyone, but in a place no one saw With tears streaming down her face, she could fall into the arms of a boy she just met, and swallow a lot of sleeping pills for a note from her writer husband.
Michelle Williams doesn't look very much like Monroe, but it's easier to focus on her acting skills. Williams doesn't try to imitate Monroe physically, but she plays Monroe's sadness and captures Monroe's insecure, dreamy, and at the same time radiant atmosphere. The director Simon Curtis has a typical British taste. He has shot a lot of British classical dramas, such as the "Cranford" that I like very much. In his shots, he is always full of tender gazes and praises for women, which also makes Monroe in this film completely different from "Hollywood Toys". She is sexy and radiant, but she will compliment someone else for a word Excited, she was pitiful, touching, innocent and lively, but lived on sleeping pills and alcohol.
The movie isn't just about Monroe. Around the Pinewood studio where Monroe was located, everyone had their own concerns. The tiny memory of the first job, the kindness and concern of the seniors to the juniors, the inferiority and fear of the talented juniors by the talented ones. What men see in Monroe is eternal beauty, and what women see in Monroe is their own dullness and decline. Everyone praised Monroe's talent, and almost all of them saw Monroe's life being choked by her talent and slipped into an irreversible abyss.
"He is an actor who wants to be a star, and you are a star who wants to be an actor", this line shows the difference between Monroe and other ordinary actors. Monroe, who can reach the peak just by feeling acting, is a natural star, but suffers herself for the same reason.
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