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Outstanding Movie & Performance!!!
What a great movie. Where do I begin. After having seen interviews with the real Aileen Wuornos in Life and Death of a Serial Killer ( a film based on personal interviews with the real "Monster" ), I realize what an Outstanding performance Charlize Theron gave. Also, heads up to the make up artists for transforming beautiful Charlize into looking strikenly like Aileen. Charlize well deserves the award she won for her performance in this true story. What a perfect pick! I have to say also that the character of Selby ( played by Christina Ricci ) was well played. As everyone must know by now, this film is a true story about America's first female serial killer. Although the movie does not go back into Aileen's ( Lee ) childhood, the viewers can sense that this woman must have had a rough life. The movie starts where she meets Selby in a bar and they soon become lovers. What Selby doesn't know is that Lee is a killer.... at least not until later in the movie. Lee spent most of her time as a highway prostitute in Florida. After being picked up and raped by a John, she murdered him and stole his vehicle. This soon became a pattern for Lee and she had to kill over and over to get both cash and a new vehicle...... for she would get rid of the other vehicles soon after she took them so she wouldn't get caught in them. After wrecking a car with eyewitnesses at the scene, a sketch of Lee and Selby were put all over the news stations and Selby began to run scared. Lee got enough money for Selby to get on a bus and leave, while Lee remained there in Florida. The police eventually caught up with her and she was apprehended at her favorite local bar. Aileen was sentenced to death for the murder of 7 men. She was executed by lethal injection. If you like true stories and don't mind violence, I strongly recommend renting and buying this movie. I've seen alot of true stories made into movies but this one has to be one of the very best ever made. Great Movie!!!!!!!!!!!

A legendary acting performance should be in your film library
If you have not seen Charlize Theron 'channel' Aileen Wuornos in the film Monster, you are in for an amazing film experience. This performance by Theron will become legendary, much like Robert DeNero's legendary acting in Raging Bull. Let me explain why I found this film to be exceptional: When I read a book or see a film, I watch for the manner in which the writer,director, and actors portray the characters. The more justice shown and compassion shown, generally the more I like the work. I am not convinced of pure evil or pure charity or pure innocenence or pure revenge. Charlize Theron allows us to see the terribly twisted youth and adolescence of Aileen, the series of bad breaks and miscalculations, and yet we also see her crimes as unnecessary, especially all her murders after the first murder. She did kill a sadistic rapist in self defense in her first homocide, but unfortunately this melts into a series of murders. It is when a good Samaratan type of family man picks her up thinking that she is really a person in need of help, and circumstances come together so that Aileen chooses to kill him also, that we see her final sentence is just and we can leave the end of the film with a sense of closure.

Christina Ricci plays the lost lesbian girl that was Eileen's partner in these final months and during the murder spree. She does a good job of playing the rebellious teenager, rebelling against any boundaries and yet dependent on the adult world for her meals and clothing and shelter.

The film will make you sad and maybe even angry. I become angry when I think about the physical and sexual mistreatment of children and how these experiences may destroy a life course or life path. I felt real compassion for Aileen but also for her victims. Well made, well acted, excellent film.

So, so sad
Makes you wonder why people are allowed to have children, and how many thousands of would be Aileen's that are becoming teenagers. When the young Aileen told her father she was being molested by one of his jerk-off friends and dear old dad didn't believe her and the guy kept on molesting her. That was were she got her low self esteem and thoughts of being worthless. I guess if we lived in a world where people were driven by logic and reason instead of power and greed couples would be tested to see if they could physically and mentally cope with the unrelenting stress of parenthood. But, that would be too easy.

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