MY LIFE WITH MARILYN
Overview by Alan Ewing
My Week With Marilyn (2011) is a movie that I had seen on DVD following it's original release. At the time I was in a hectic helter shelter within The Marilyn World, as a business man. So, although I saw the film, it was really a case of skimming over the ice, on a respite evening from the general insanity and drama that was going on around me. The look-a-likes were driving me mad. they thought that they were her, rather than playing a part. I was simply seeing Michelle as a look-a-like because my brain had gone.
Watching it again at Christmas 2018 was a new experience; in far more relaxed Marilyn World mode. The performance of Michelle Williams is breath- taking. She captures all of Marilyn’ vulnerability, while at the same time capturing her alluring power. An actress at the height of her powers; not a look-a-like. Her other roles prove this. being a look-a-like is one thing; being an actress is another.
We see Miss Monroe through the eyes of two men, and how she captures them in differing ways. Lawrence Olivier, played with gusto by Kennneth Branagh, is enraged that he cannot contain her, as they film ”The Prince and the Showgirl.” Her acting craft is not understood by him. She is a natural who has not gone through training. He is in love with her, though his manhood knows the dangers of that.
On the other side of the fence we have Colin Clarke, played by Eddie Reymayne The movie is based on Clarke’s experience, as he befriends Marilyn while working on a lowly position on the set of "The Prince and the Showgirl". She turns to him as the new marriage to Arthur Miller starts to come apart at the seams. Miller cannot cope with her because she overshadows and consumes him.
In her, Clarke finds a woman in need of a friend. A woman locked into being “Marilyn Monroe – the most famous woman upon the earth. She never refers to herself as Norma Jean .. she doesn't need to; we know that. The ending shows why all Marilyn’s relationships are doomed to fail, as no man can with the biggest movie star of them all.
Thoroughly recommended for any serious student of Marilyn Monroe.
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