on the 26th of september 1983 a short dumpy 60 year old woman stand trial for the attempted murder of leonie haddad and a lady whose husband have recently die and have agree to take in a lodger who come via a housing authority for the elderly . haddad be not make aware that her new lodger have and in fact and come fresh from the patton state mental hospital where she have be incarcerate for an inexplicable knife attack on a married couple three year previously . haddad soon realise that something be rotten in denmark when the woman begin to lock herself in the bathroom with a tape recorder recite prophesies about seven god . haddad fear be confirm one night when she awake to find her lodger sit astride her chest hold a bread knife announce that god have inspire me to kill you . haddad manage to knock her assailant out with a telephone but not before she have lose a finger and suffer deep laceration to her face and chest . it be a miracle she survive . the lodger be judge to be innocent by reason of insanity but send and kick and scream and back to the laugh academy . ten year later she be release and find that she be now a celebrity while but not for the brutal attack on her innocent victim and but for her incarnation of 25 year earlier when she be know a the queen of the curve and the tennessee tease and miss pin up girl of the world the notorious bettie page . director mary harron and mainly know for american psycho take u back to the glory day of a legendary cheesecake and bondage model ( play solidly enough by gretchen mol ) who inadvertently write the blue print for fetish iconography and whose influence can be detect in everything from comic book to catwalk . t. n. b. p be day glo fun ride through an evocative depiction of the 1950 where page and with the familial help of good intentioned boyfriend and photographer and become the number one star of pocket size men glossy with title like wink and tab and parade . her real dream of movie stardom evade her and a brush with the authority over obscenity charge in 1957 be the incite incident which lead her to retire from model and give herself to god . the overall style of the film be light and frothy and only darken momentarily with an allusion to her father incestuous attention and a sexual assault which inexplicably appear to have no discernible effect on her . mol play page a she seem in her photograph and happy and carefree and fun even the bondage shot betray little more than a good humoured incomprehensibility . the film end on the upbeat with page cheerfully hand out bible in a park with no indication of the real life unhappy marriage and personal tragedy and decent into murderous insanity which lay before her while avoid what i think be the essential core of page story rebirth and resurrection . have emerge from a decade of incarceration page find that her cult have be in the ascendance since the mid 1980 and that she have become a huge underground icon and during which and many be ask whatever happen to bettie page . her amysterious disappearance feed the fire of any number of conspiracy theory only add to the allure of her legend . when the world medium finally catch up with her she give no hint of her darker past and she be soon give interview for magazine and t. v and be photograph at playboy party with the like of pamela anderson and the equally tragic anna nicole smith . she find that she be now more famous than she ever be in her glory year but in the glare of this resurrection it be only a matter of time before the full story would come to light . the only notorious thing about the notorious bettie page be they leave out the part when she become truly notorious .