Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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In this video I talk about the movie Blonde and try to understand what Andrew Dominik was doing with it. This is kind of a review but also just me thinking about Dominik's philosophy, biopics, how they work, and why making a good one about Marilyn Monroe seems kind of impossible.

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