Monster

Rating: 7/10 (15 November 2006)

This is a pretty good drama based on a true story, and the leading actress, who is usually gorgeous looking (face and body), is very convincing. Basically Aileen Wuornos (Oscar and Golden Globe winning, and BAFTA nominated, and purposely not completely attractive, Charlize Theron) is a prostitute who one night has her transport break down, and finds herself at a gay bar. There she meets, and will eventually fall in love with, naive Selby (Sleepy Hollow's Christina Ricci). As they get closer to each other, they try to create a better life away from Selby's faithful family and possibly away from "hooking". Aileen is only good at prostitution though, and because she can't get a real job she secretly carries on with it. One night, one "customer" paid her, but tried to rape her, and she ended up shooting/killing him. This film is meant to be about Aileen being one of the first female serial killer in America, you really only see four deaths out of her seven in real life, it's more like a doomed lesbian romance story. In the end they are both caught by the cops, they never saw each other again after the court case, and years later Aileen (on death row) was executed by the state of Florida (lethal injection). Also starring Bruce Dern as Thomas, Lee Tergesen as Vincent Corey, Annie Corley as Donna, Pruitt Taylor Vince as Gene/Stuttering "John", Marco St. John as Evan/Undercover "John", Marc Macaulay as Will/Daddy "John" and Scott Wilson as Horton/Last "John". Very good!