An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes America's first female serial killer.
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Andre Gonzales
5
By Andre Gonzales
The movie was alright. It was more of a sadistic type of love story. What they failed to capture is really how nuts she was. Like do less of a love story and more of her psychoness. The bitch was crazy! All the crazy interviews with her and all the outbursts she did in court, where's that? This movie almost tried to make you feel sorry for her when they really didn't show just how crazy she really was.
CinemaSerf
7
By CinemaSerf
Charlize Theron is really quite convincing as the down-at-heel Aileen Wuornos, a real life character who went from hooker to serial killer in late 1980s Florida in the United States. Her’s is a dangerous profession where she encounters some of life’s slime who may pay her with cash or with a beating. It’s after one particularly toxic encounter that she finds herself in a gay bar where she meets Selby (Christina Ricci). Initially very sceptical of her new friend’s motives, she quickly finds herself determined to raise her game and try to provide for both of them. That is when she realises that she can lure her sex-starved gents and then instead of satisfying their needs, she can put six bullets into them and walk off with their wallets. Now she is clearly a little psychotic but she’s not inherently evil - indeed she does occasionally take pity on her more pitiful marks. For the most part, though, she is ruthless and of course that attracts the Feds and also puts her already strained relationship with Selby at risk. History tells us just what happened to her, but even though there can be no excusing her vengeful retribution, Theron still manages to imbue this woman with a sense of tenacious decency. The real Wuornos had clearly been exposed to abusive deprivation since she was a teenager and had had to think on her feet as best she could throughout her life, and that is powerfully captured here with some solid writing and combative spirit from both women who have always had their battles to fight. It presents a potent look at the sleazy underbelly of a society where sex is a commodity and it’s clients little better than rutting animals, and at times the story is quite difficult to watch. The ending is a little overly compacted and rushed, but it’s convincingly gritty and human throughout.
