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Isabel Millar - Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Bombshell

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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Is Marilyn Monroe the Girl Boss?

The film is clearly about trauma and abuse and how she was very unhappy. We get that visceral experience of her suffering undoubtedly for the whole time. So I think it's a sort of miss miss firing to sort of accuse the film of not giving us also her joy and also her talents, because that's not what he wanted to do.

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