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Monster

Annie Corley, Bruce Dern, Bubba Baker, Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci

A dark tale based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos, one of America's first female serial killers. Wuornos had a difficult and cruel childhood plagued by abuse and drug use in Michigan. She became a...( read more  read more... ) prostitute by the age of thirteen, the same year she became pregnant. She eventually moved to Florida where she began earning a living as a highway prostitute--servicing the desires of semi-truck drivers. The tale focuses on the nine month period between 1989 and 1990, during which Wuornos had a lesbian relationship with a woman named Selby. And during that very same time, she also began murdering any of her clientele who attempted to rape her. This turned the tables on a rather common phenomena of female highway prostitutes being the victims of serial killers--instead Wuornos, herself, carried out the deeds of a cold-blooded killer.

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  • irisheyes686
    November 8, 2009
    irisheyes686
    This movie was SO disturbing! I normally like serial killer movies, but I didn't care for this one.
  • SirPant
    September 25, 2009
    SirPant
    Charlize Theron thoroughly deserved her Oscar for this one as it wasn?t just her make-up that made her convincing, she really got into the part!
  • JakeMN
    August 30, 2009
    JakeMN
    Well casted and well acted. This movie does a good job of drawing you into the world of the characters. Not a feel good movie, it's a life how it is movie.
  • JeT0425
    June 13, 2009
    JeT0425
    A terrific biopic on prostitute turned serial killer Aileen Wuornos. I hate to say this, but I love the character Aileen. There is something about her that is so unique and it makes her different from any other characters I have seen on film. She was an interesting human.

    Charli...( read more)ze Theron played this role to perfection. She gives one of the best female performances I have ever seen and deserved her Oscar more than anyone in Academy Award history. This film is absolutely compelling with its wonderful story and strong characters that it makes you feel many different things while watching it.

    When Aileen kills her first 'customer' you feel bad for her. But after the second and third victims you realize that she is out of control. The fact that she needed to be stopped made me sad because she was such a hopeful person even if she was a criminal. Charlize did a terrific job making this character likeable and despised at the same time.

    The last few scenes are the most powerful, especially the one where Aileen is calling Selby for the last time from prison. The way the recording plays through the trial is heartwrenching. Aileen gets to the most emotional part of her speech at the same time the judge sentences her to death. It ended up being a very sad movie even though I knew what was going to happen.

    I highly recommend this to everyone.
  • LitelBluHli
    April 1, 2009
    LitelBluHli
    Charlize Theron was awesome! A sad sad story in every way possible, but good movie.
  • magnolia12883
    December 12, 2009
    magnolia12883
    Patty Jenkins' film is a deeply disturbing, hypnotically fascinating, and utterly absorbing experience. Aileen Wuornos was one of the first female serial killers in America. Abused and into drugs as a child, Aileen was a starry-eyed dreamer who thought she could've been an actres...( read more)s like Marilyn Monroe, but was not going to be "discovered" as a thirteen-year old prostitute. In Florida, Aileen began hitchhiking on the highways, servicing truck drivers and loners in cars. Aileen had one friend - a Vietnam vet and fellow drunk named Thomas (Bruce Dern), who pities her when she can't pay her storage garage's rent and never asks for her "services" in return. Then, between 1989 and 1990, Aileen met a sweet, young Christian-raised lesbian named Selby Wall (Christina Ricci), who was in the area from Ohio after her father sent her to live with family and "figure some things out." Aileen fell in love with Selby, not at first sight per say, but gradually over a few days. Soon, Aileen was trying to keep Selby from leaving her, and needed to gain money. Attempts at quitting prostitution failed, and one night she was raped. She murdered the man in what looks an awful lot like self-defense. The six murders which occurred after that were an unfortunate side effect of her terrible childhood and treatment at the hands of the men in her life (with the exception of Thomas), and stemmed largely from a need for money to keep Selby accustomed to her chosen lifestyle. Writer-director Patty Jenkins has crafted an unflinching portrait of a serial killer, absorbing in its detail and profoundly moving in its humanity. Charlize Theron stars as Aileen Wuornos, but it isn't a performance so much as a transformation; she's channeling demons here, not simply "acting." With her wild eyes, her low Southern drawl, and her profound weight gain - alongside the remarkable makeup effects of Toni G. - Theron becomes Aileen. Christina Ricci is essentially the sweet young innocent who falls into Aileen's web. Theron, however, is the star of the show. We see that she is deeply in love with Selby, that she is good-humored and we even meet her at her lowest point - she was about to kill herself before walking into a bar and first meeting her lady love. She is not without a scintilla of compassion; she lets a seemingly mentally challenged man (Pruitt Taylor Vince, all dodgy eyes and stutters) go after her streak of killing's begun. Then things go from bad to worse, when fate catches up with her. One night, on a dark highway, she is picked up by a Good Samaritan (Scott Wilson) who simply wants to help her out. When she realizes she can't kill him, she is getting out of the car and he sees something he wasn't supposed to see. His fate is sealed. "God forgive me," she says. This is a portrait of a shattered person, someone who never stood a chance. Circumstances drove her to prostitution, and circumstances again drove her to kill - first in self-defense, then for money. It's all in the details. What Jenkins and Theron have provided then is a profound exercise in empathy; we can just about feel Wuornos' pain. It's one of the year's best films.

    NOTE: Theron of course won the Oscar for Best Actress.
  • F0XyF0x
    December 11, 2009
    F0XyF0x
    Was the biggest load of crap
  • raidermatty
    November 19, 2009
    raidermatty
    Charlize Theron gives one of the best performances I have ever seen!.A searing drama from beginning to end!
  • theloneowl
    November 13, 2009
    theloneowl
    È un pugno nello stomaco a velocità raddoppiata.
  • odonoghuematthew
    November 12, 2009
    odonoghuematthew
    Best Actress 2003 - Best Supporting actress 2003
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