remarkable resemblance by Theron!!

Rating: 6/10 (19 August 2005)

I saw this movie 2 days ago on DVD and i like it. The acting by Theron is the best part. I recently watched a documentary about the serial killer Aileen and I must say that Charlize Theron looks so much like Aileen in this movie that you can sometimes believe (almost) that it is her (The eyes, the gestures... ). However, by comparing the authentic story on the documentary with this movie, there are some things that differs. First of all i am thinking about the fictitious person Selby. In the real life doc. there is no Selby, but there is a woman called Thyria. I probably guess the makers of the movie didn't have the legal rights to use the name Thyria in this movie (?), so they created 'Selby'. The second thing is that the first killing in this movie was motivated by a brutal rape of Aileen. It might have been that way in real life, but in the documentary it never occurred that it was a rape. At least there were no evidence of that. The last thing i was thinking of was that in the end on the trial when Selby was called to witness, she looked at Aileen at one time. In the doc. it was stated that Thyria (Selby) never looked into Aileens eyes. If i remember right I don't think she looked at her at all. My final judgment is that it is a good movie with good acting but a little bit fictitious story for some parts (maybe too much fictitious). I grade it a 6 out of 10.