A Wild Woman

Rating: Null/10 (24 June 2004)

A film I recently saw was "Monster." It is based on a true story about a serial killer named Aillen Wuornos (Charlize Theron). Wuornos past involves an abusive childhood. At an early age, Wuornos becomes a hooker at truck stops in Florida to escape her life. While at a gay bar, she meets a woman named Selby (Christina Ricci), who later becomes her lover. Selby and Aileen decide to live together and Selby's family disowns her because she comes from a strong religious background. This movie is about the journeys that Aileen and Selby experience together. One night at her job, Wuornos experienced something horrible that made her inner demons come to life. Her demons are 'John's' that she encounters.
Director Patty Jenkins was trying to show a true story that many people do not know of. Headlines, like what happened with Wuornos, does not happen every day and I believe the movie was trying to express what Wuornos was going though. The director was trying to show the life of a female who has had a horrible childhood that turns to a life on the streets. Also, the director was showing the audience how hard it is for society back in the 1980s to accept a person who is a homosexual. The director accomplishment was showing the audience what Aileen experienced in her life.
At the start of the movie, it shows a girl growing up through different situations. The screen looks like they are playing it from a home movie, so that way the audience can tell it was from the past. Also, in the background there is an older, more rasper voice which gives the audience another hint that it is from the past. I liked whenever Aileen was with a 'John,' and her past flashback to her.