Two boxes that reveal a young woman dissatisfied with the superficiality of life, striving to seek the truth in things as well as in people.
- Marilyn Monroe
A tale by Lucia Margherita Marino
ESTEMPORANEA Ensemble
Massimo Bairo | violin
Luciano Meola | clarinet
Tamara Bairo | viola
Fortunato D’Ascola | double bass
Sara Musso | piano
Norma Jean Mortenson was born under the sign of Gemini and indeed described herself in dualistic terms, two people in one. On one side the intelligent, melancholic, and sensitive woman, on the other the carefree and radiant image. While she was alive, production houses pushed the media to make Marilyn Monroe seem almost like a dumb blonde: any aspect that clashed with this fabricated image was not welcome. The myth was not allowed to have another face.
Yet, like a coin, the icon truly had two faces: the bright sunny one of the bubbly blonde and the dark one of the obsessive perfectionist, raised in an orphanage, for whom life generated continuous disappointments. In 2007, 45 years after her death, while sorting through things, two boxes of poems, notes, letters, thoughts, and handwritten fragments of Marilyn were found.
Two boxes that reveal a young woman unfulfilled by the superficiality of life, striving to seek the truth in things as well as in people. They show us another Marilyn. Inside that body, which at certain moments in her life Marilyn carried like a heavy suitcase, lived the soul of an intellectual and a poet.
