Name: Aileen Wuornos
Lived: 29 February 1956 – 9 October 2002
Film dates: 1963 to 1990, mostly 1986 to 1990
Film made in 2003
Charlize Theron won an Oscar as Best Actress in 2004 for her outstanding
performance in "Monster". I'm surprised the film didn't win any other awards.
"Monster" is at the same time a love story and a story about a serial killer.
Aileen Wuornos, referred to by her nickname Lee, met Selby Wall in a gay bar
in 1986. Lee wasn't gay, but there was something in Selby that attracted her.
Maybe it was just a lifetime of being disappointed by men that made her open
to trying something new. Some people say that homosexuals are born gay. Others
say that homosexuals choose to be gay. I think both opinions are false. It's a
complex mixture of circumstances in a person's life that makes him homosexual,
different in every case.
Lee had been a prostitute since she was 13. When she met Selby, she made an
attempt to give up hooking, but it wasn't so easy. It's hard enough to
find a job even if you have qualifications, but a 30-year-old woman who's
never done any work apart from prostitution has no chance.
Lee turned to murder as an alternative. She still picked up men for sex, but
instead of having sex with them she shot them. Did they deserve to die? That's a
question that everyone will answer differently, based on their morals. If I
have to answer the question myself, I'd say that only one of the men we see in
the film is a truly disgusting creature. Lee has to kill him to stop him
raping her. The others are just normal horny men who want to pay for sex.
Killing is more profitable than hooking. Lee gets to take the complete
contents of their wallets, and she keeps their car. At first Selby was
disgusted, but as time went by she expected it.
Christina Ricci also deserved on Oscar for her portrayal of Selby. She's a
naive little girl from a Christian home, and she just happens to be a lesbian.
Church and homosexuality don't go well together.
The main deviation from the true story is Selby's name. In real life she was
called Tyria Moore, but Tyria objected to her name being used in the film.
Apart from that, in the film everything seems to be happening quickly. It
seems like just a few months, although it was actually four years. Lee killed
seven men. We only see four murders being committed, but the film lets us know
there were more. Lee kept newspaper clippings with the reports of her victims'
deaths, and we see the stack of paper grow.
This is a first rate film. It's included in my top 100 film list.
If you haven't seen it yet, why not?
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