'Blonde' Ending Explained: Was Marilyn Monroe able to find her father?
Andrew Dominik’s highly anticipated ‘Blonde’ has finally been released on Netflix and fans are flocking the streaming platform to watch the fictionalized version of Marilyn Monroe’s life. Based on the novel written by Joyce Carol Oates, the movie primarily focuses on Monroe’s life behind the camera and how she endured so much abuse throughout her life. Whether it was the relationship with her mother or her love life, Monroe faced a lot of abuse, physical and mental, in almost every phase of her life.
One of the most striking aspects of the movie is how she searched for her father throughout her life and even when she became one of the most iconic figures in Hollywood, she never stopped searching for him. Meanwhile, the movie explores how men mistreated her and believed that she was some kind of meat that anyone can have. We all know how her life ended, but there are a lot of things that happened in the movie, that might need your attention. So, let’s take a look at how ‘Blonde’ ended.
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‘Blonde’ Ending Explained: What happened in Marilyn’s relationship with Cass and Edward?
In 1952, Marilyn Monroe met Cass Chaplin, son of the legendary personality Charlie Chaplin, and Edward Robinson Jr at LA Actors’ Circle. She hears someone playing the piano and gets to know that Cass and Edward are playing a tune on the piano. Marilyn sees them and as soon as Cass sees her, she gets up and starts dancing with Marilyn. A few moments later, we see Marilyn, Cass, and Edward entering a house and talking to each other. During their conversation, Cass and Edward remove their clothes and Cass moves ahead to undress Marilyn as well. While looking at the mirror, Cass makes Marilyn believe that she is more than what people see in the outside world and the real Marilyn is in this mirror. Cass was able to seduce Marilyn with those words and they engage in a threesome.
Cass made her believe that he loves her and their sexual adventures continued until Marilyn found that she was pregnant. She was really happy and so were Cass and Edward. However, they were indirectly trying to tell her that having a child will dent her chances to become a bigger star. So, he created doubts in her mind that she should abort the baby.
That’s how their relationship ended.
‘Blonde’ Ending Explained: Who is the Ex-Athlete and how did their relationship turn abusive?
In the later part of her life, Marilyn meets an ex-athlete and began a relationship with him. Even though the movie never names the athlete, we know that it was Joe DiMaggio. They met each other in a restaurant and were having a discussion about who is more popular. Their conversation turns tragic when DiMaggio asked her how she got into movies. She started to have flashbacks of the time when she went to a producer for the very first time and he didn’t even hear the dialogues and forcefully, had sex with her.
However, DiMaggio and Marilyn started a relationship that looked really good. He even proposed to Marilyn for marriage and they tied the knot in 1954, but their marriage ended just nine months after DiMaggio found out about her past and saw some really explicit photos of her wife. The situation became worse when DiMaggio began to hurt her physically and mentally. In October 1954, after returning back to Los Angeles after filming in New York City, Monroe filed for divorce from DiMaggio citing reasons of “mental cruelty”.
‘Blonde’ Ending Explained: Was John F. Kennedy shown in the movie?
We all know that there were reports of an affair between Marilyn and then President John F. Kennedy. Kennedy became the President of the United States in 1961 and the scene where Marilyn meets the US President is also from 1961. So yes, the President shown in the movie is John F. Kennedy. In the scene, she meets the president in his private room while he was on a call with someone. He tells Marilyn that it was a tiring day and wants her to give him a handjob. However, Kennedy is not too happy with that. So, he suddenly moves her head down for a blowjob. A few minutes later when it’s finished, the President apparently puts his hand on her mouth and pushes her down to the bed.
When she wakes up, it looks like there is blood over and around Marilyn’s mouth and she’s unable to walk properly. She goes to the toilet and starts crying about whatever has happened to her.
‘Blonde’ Ending Explained: Did she find her father?
In the very first scene of the movie, Norma Jean’s mother shows her a photo and tells her that he is her father. He doesn’t know about her daughter and her mother doesn’t even let her touch his photo. A few moments later we see Norma’s mother taking her to see her father, but there’s a huge fire around in the woods, so the police tell her to stop. She tells the policeman that she is driving to see her husband and Norma’s father who is a big industry tycoon. The police officer believes that she is drunk and should return to her home.
Throughout her life, Marilyn Monroe kept on searching for her father and she found a letter from his alleged father saying that he has got to know she is his daughter and soon, he will be meeting her. In reality, she never gets to see him, and dies before she could even complete one of her movies.