When it first came out that Andrew Dominik’s adaptation of the Joyce Carol Oates novel “Blonde” would be rated Nc-17, it made many eyebrows raise.
That is a rating rarely given by the Motion Picture Association (née of America), and when it is given, filmmakers most often succumb to the will of the organization and cut out the “questionable” moments so they can attain an R rating.
But in this case, Dominik and Netflix held firm, and “Blonde” got the Nc-17.
Why is rated that? The official description is for “Some Sexual Content,” which is a nice way of saying that there is going to be quite a bit of fairly explicit nudity and sex.”Blonde” is a somewhat fictionalized account of the life of Marilyn Monroe, someone objectified and taken advantage of by the global public since people first saw her image.
To tell that story as honestly as possible,
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