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Incredible performances, fantastic film
This film is based on nine months in the life of Aileen Wuornos, one of America's first female serial killers. She became a prostitute at the age of thirteen and ran away from home to Florida. After a particularly bad day, she walks into a bar, not knowing that it's a gay bar (and not caring) and meets Selby Walker, a closeted lesbian who was unwillingly sent to Florida by her father. They strike up a friendship that blossoms into love. Determined to give Selby everything she wants, Aileen continues hooking. But one night, events take a terrible turn and she kills a john who rapes her, starting a downward slide as she tries to make a new life for her and Selby.

Charlize Theron is incredible as Aileen. It's not just the incredible make-up and prosthetics; she seems to lose herself in the character of Aileen, becoming her. It's as if she the words were coming straight from her instead of from a script. Theron plays her with such reality that you begin to empathize with Aileen, to understand the driving force behind the
killings. Christina Ricci is very good as Selby, naive and closeted and with just the right mindset of someone who is discovering herself.

It's a harsh, violent film, but contains one of the best performances -- that is deserving of many accolades and awards -- by Charlize Theron. An
incredible film.

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