Marilyn

About this book

Marilyn addresses a not-so-distant topic, about sexual persecution, a topic still scarcely addressed in the world of graphic narrative. This book makes us think about an era that we have not yet overcome. One of the reasons why Pedro Almodóvar's cinema was and continues to be revolutionary is because the director was always concerned with dismissing the idea of ??the traditional family, demonstrating in its different representations, throughout his filmography, the thousand and one possibilities to build a clan. "A family can be made up of separated parents, transvestites, transsexuals and nuns with AIDS," Almodóvar told Ratzinger when he was pope, furious at the idea of ??imposing a single form of family on us. Marilyn captures the same concept in black and white, so close to that universe of crazy jokes and emotions with no prejudice, that Leopoldo, the gay voice that guides this story, attends a party by the kitsch film director in the famous Madrid scene from the 80s. But far from that youth, from those years of searching and finding where she used garter belts and tied the straps of Monroe's white dress to her hairy neck, this mysterious character bursts into the life of her son, Lisandro. Like Manuela, in Todo sobre mi madre, he is not afraid of rejection because he has nothing to lose.