Blonde

Ana de Armas is a Cuban-Spanish actor playing the white American star Marilyn Monroe. The role is the film's central role, so the background mismatch is easy to see. The film presents the choice as an effort to copy Monroe's look and voice, not as a diversity message. Public complaints focused on her accent and resemblance, and the Monroe estate defended the casting.

The film builds its plot around Norma Jeane's life as a woman used by studios, lovers, and powerful men. Her abortions, miscarriages, sexual assaults, and wish to become a mother are repeated story points. The film also shows her in a romantic and sexual three-person relationship with two men, which adds a nontraditional queer relationship. The film presents these ideas through personal horror and trauma, not through a current activist campaign.

The film repeatedly shows Hollywood, the press, husbands, doctors, and a president treating Monroe's body as property. Studio bosses demand sex, and the film shows Joe DiMaggio beating her while powerful men control her work and pregnancies. These scenes create a clear critique of male entitlement, toxic masculinity, and the culture that turns a woman into a product. The film makes that critique through horror and personal suffering, not through modern political speeches or a broad attack on capitalism.

Andrew Dominik's work and comments focus more on trauma, self-destruction, and emotional pain than on activist ideas. Joyce Carol Oates often writes about gender, power, violence, trauma, and reproductive rights, while also warning against identity group fights. Plan B producers Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner have made other social-issue films, including queer stories. This background adds a light context signal, but Blonde itself does not turn it into a political message.