Who was the victim?

Rating: 2/10 (9 April 2006)

Was her first murder in self defense? According to who? Watching the brutal rape scene in the movie, I guess women should be glad Wuornos took him off the streets. I mean he pours some kind of rubbing alcohol or something all over her backside after very violently raping her, she is screaming in pain, he is saying he wants her to scream. I think they even showed a hacksaw in his car while she was going through it after she killed him.
Also there is the scene where a policeman picks her up in his squad car, a guy who admits he nearly broke her jaw in the past and she climbs over the seat to service him for free. Has this ever been substantiated? I am just curious.
I think this movie is very disrespectful to the victims and their surviving loved ones. Just because a man goes to a prostitute does not make him a rapist or deserving of death. Just because a woman is abused as a child, that does not excuse her atrocious crimes. The message of this movie is that Wuornos is the real victim, victim of evil MEN. What a bunch of baloney.
This movie is OK if you realize it is a work of FICTION, but to peddle this as a true story is so wrong. Like a rape victim who gets "raped" again by the system when their sexual history is brought up at trial to prove the victim was asking for it or somehow deserved it - Wuornos' victims have been made responsible for the crimes committed against them- disgusting. The way these men are portrayed is unfair seeing as how this information came from a psychopath who was charged with murder. Let's believe her, she has no reason to lie.
That is my two cents