Love, Marilyn

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david f @dfulmer 02/06/2023 A great documentary about the life and legend of Marilyn Monroe, told through pictures, film, and written accounts of those who knew her as well as her own writings and interviews. This is both a great place to start in learning about the starlet or an excellent film to watch even if you think you know her. It covers her upbringing, her career as an actress, and her personal life and marriages. And it focuses more on her life and what she accomplished than it does on the tragedy of some of the sadder events of her life. A really top-notch documentary about Hollywood. See more 03/19/2017 Very comprehensive and creative biographical documentary. See more 10/01/2016 "Love, Marilyn" is a documentary which does what so much media about Marilyn does not, it lets her speak for herself. Marilyn is one of the most interesting cases is media in that she is someone for whom there is so much love as an icon, but not much interest in the actual person. Everyone in the world is in love with who they think she was while "Love, Marilyn" shows that who they think she was was almost completely wrong. "Love, Marilyn" uses pieces and exerts from Marilyn's actual letters, diaries, and the records from those around her to let the real Marilyn shine, revealing her as the poetic, pragmatic, romantic, independent, opinionated, anxious, frustrated and occasionally depressed person she really was and, honestly, the more I learn about the real Marilyn and who she was behind the constructed persona, constructed partially by her and partially by the studio which had a death grip over her, the more I actually like her and cheer for her. The real Marilyn, or Norma-Jean if you want to strip away the veil entirely, is a far more interesting and sympathetic person to me than the icon which Marilyn Monroe is, and I think that she would be very happy to hear that. It seems so sad that someone who was never allowed much of a voice during her life is still rarely allowed a voice in the present as she achieves meme-status and has become one of the most recognizable images in the history of mankind. "Love, Marilyn" reveals so much of how people look at Marilyn and think they know her, just like how we look at celebrities today and think we know them and what a toll something like that can take on a person which is something people nowadays still seem to gloss over, and, while maybe there aren't the revelations that some may want out of a pic about Marilyn Monroe, if it does one thing, it lets Marilyn finally be allowed to tell her own story and show the audience who she really was and, I think, that it's about bloody time that she gets that chance. If anyone has earned the right to speak for herself, it's Marilyn. See more 09/20/2015 A good documentary that must see. See more 07/22/2015 There is a strange juxtaposition in Liz Garbus's documentary Love, Marilyn. On the one hand it appears to be trying to tell the tragic starlet's story in her own words through the use of the text from her personal diaries. On the other hand, Garbus uses multiple actresses to portray Marilyn which fragments her in a way that none of the other people who are quoted are. As a result Love, Marilyn manages to give a very personal look into Monroe's life, give her a voice, let others speak for her, treat her memory with reverence and exploit it. See more 10/23/2014 Marilyn Monroe is a fascinating figure and this documentary has some interesting footage, and access to never before seen diaries and letters. Unfortunately, I found the film's technique of having celebs read the diary entries really distracting and kept taking me out of the film. This is still a worthwhile documentary for any film fans. See more Read all reviews

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