February 2022. The trailer for the film Elvis just out. Gives the taste. After Bohemian Rhapsody recounting the life and work of Freddie Mercury e Rocket man to tell about those of Elton John, to immerse yourself for more than two hours in the life and work of Elvis Presley is a very exciting invitation. An extraordinary fate and catchy melodies. We recognize the touch of director Baz Luhrmann, Moulin Rouge meets Memphis. It will be great ‘stie! as an impersonator of the famous rocker would say.
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Summer 2022. That’s it. The film is on the screens. The tone is set from the beginning. After the Warner Brothers logo, we read a motto set in precious stones, such as the huge belts of the King, Vegas version: “A life lived in fear is a life lived in half. ”
Elvis it is not a musical Elvis it’s a scary movie. And the scary villain is Colonel Tom Parker, the singer’s impresario, played by a deformed Tom Hanks. He looks like an evil Batman character. The funfair of the Penguin version. The entire extraordinary career of the king of rock ‘n’ roll takes place in this gloomy atmosphere. Through the eyes of a deranged manipulator. Even the musical scenes are fraught with anguish. The exalted release of a star too often suffocated and the hysterical madness of a crowd for too long being bullied.
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You thought you were going to come out broken, you came out dejected. Almost disappointed. Then you realize that your expectations were disappointing. Who has not had intercourse. How can you think Elvis’s story would have been uplifting? Luhrmann is right. Elvis’s story is toxic, so toxic that he’s dead. And his film makes us live his life which is a slow death.
PHOTO PROVIDED BY NETFLIX, VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe blonde
A few weeks later, we learn of the fall release of a Netflix movie that tells the fate of Marilyn Monroe: blonde, by director Andrew Dominick. Marilyn, the greatest sex symbol of all time. An eternal myth. We tell ourselves that she will be like that charm, sensual, Hollywood. And tragic, of course, we are not so naive, we know the end.
Then the view appears on our screen and we realize it blonde it is not a tragic film, it is a hypertragic film. Unbearably tragic. From the first second to the last. Not a moment of respite.
Art, love and success will not change Norma Jean’s journey. It will always be hell for this destroyed child, for this exploited woman-child.
You watch the film as you watch misfortune. The sad eyes, the heavy soul. The direction of the photo is great, but the beautiful images only make the actions and intentions uglier. You wanted to see Marilyn’s life, you are forced to live it. And this hurts. Dominick succeeded in his work. They make you feel the anguish of star. It is not easy to manage. Yet.
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Because Marilyn and Elvis have always been part of our lives. These are two cults. Beauty and fame. Elvis Presley was the ideal man of the XXAnd century. Marilyn Monroe was the ideal woman of the twentieth centuryAnd century. We envied them, getting everything wrong.
Happiness doesn’t have to be the most beautiful. Happiness is not being the most beautiful. Happiness is feeling good. And Elvis was not well. And Marilyn was fine.
We must stop believing that everything depends on our body. The more envious it is, the more beautiful our life will be. We have to work on our inside, more than on our outside. It is even more complicated. It’s not money or fame that will solve our problems. It is having people we love and who love us. This is also more complicated. To find, but above all to detect. Knowing how to appreciate the true, the sincere. Those with whom it will be good to move forward.
Cinema is increasingly becoming a reflection of the anxious world in which we are trying to survive. Joker, The Batman, Elvis, blonde, many popular feature films that separate us, sink us. Before, we used to watch a movie for fun. To lighten. Now, let’s go to the crosshairs to come face to face with a reality we try too hard to escape. Our inner pain. The film makes a small hole in us, to evacuate the pressure. Eventually, it also lightens up, but it’s more stressful.
If the films about the life of Elvis and Marilyn move us so much, it is because it is about the fate of two strangers who have become stars and mean a lot to us. It is up to us to use it to be more sensitive to the fate of all known and unknown, which could mean a lot more to us.
