Absolutely stunning!

Rating: 9/10 (30 April 2004)

I'd have to say, with all respect to everybody involved in the real events, that this is absolutely the "best" real serial killer movie I've seen so far. I guess there are only two which come close to this: "Ed Gein - In the light of the moon" and "John Wayne Gacey - To catch a killer".
The performance of the lead actress and also the close resemblance to the real person was so freaking stunning that, had I not looked up her movie history on this site, I'd have believed she'd be the real Aileen Wuornos!!! And I mean that and what I think you should know: I am extremely peckish about saying things like that! Absolutely stunning performance! Did she ever get an Oscar for that role? Well she sure deserved one!
However, I am not all to sure about the accuracy of most of the dialogs and such. But thats mainly because obviously I don't know where the movie makers got all that information from. But who knows, maybe Mrs. Wuornos told that stuff to somebody while she was on death row. But whatever, I really have to say that whatever the details of all the conversations might have been in real life, they sure braught you a lot of insight about the person and what made her tick... or not tick. The only scene I can clearly point out to be inaccurate was the arrest. Because not only obviously, but also factually, was it never the undercover cops which got her arrested! They were only there to keep her in place and check her out in case she'd slip up and say something about the murders. So when the arrest was underway the undercover policemen were arrested just like her, to keep the cover up! She never said anything about the murders, so the police coudn't completely prove it was her, until they got her girlfriend to agree to the staged phonecall you see in the end. After that she told the police herself and confessed to the murders.
I would also have expected Wuornos to be a bit easier to get much more angry, but I wouldn't know if my image of that is correct. Anyway, seeing this movie made me almost feel sorry for her. I'd twice previously watched the discovery program about her. In that program it was much easier to identify her as some kind of psychological freak, but on the other hand was that documentary seen out of the polices viewpoint, not really from hers. I'm not saying that I understand any of her actions, but it's just that through the movie at least I can feel some sympathy for the reasons why she was so screwed up.
I have to say this again - and Mrs. Theron if, by any chance, you're reading this... your performance was absolutely mind blasting!
I'd be more than surprised if she just played that part out of her sleeve so to speak! I'd much rather believe that she really put herself into Wuornos shoes, trying to be her even off set (at least partially and only mentally of course), because that is the only way I'd understand why she played her part so well!
A well deserved 9/10