Monster

United States, Germany

2003

109 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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EXEC Andreas Grosch, Stewart Hall, Sammy Lee, Meagan Riley-Grant, Andreas Schmid

PROD Mark Damon, Donald Kushner, Clark Peterson, Charlize Theron, Brad Wyman

CAST Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern, Lee Tergesen, Annie Corley, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Marco St. John, Marc Macaulay, Scott Wilson

MUSIC BT

AFI FEST (Gala), Berlinale (Competition): Best Actress

Synopsis

A dark tale based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos, one of America’s first female serial killers. Wuornos had a difficult and cruel childhood plagued by abuse and drug use in Michigan. She became a prostitute by the age of thirteen, the same year she became pregnant. She eventually moved to Florida where she began earning a living as a highway prostitute—servicing the desires of semi-truck drivers. The tale focuses on the nine month period between 1989 and 1990, during which Wuornos had a lesbian relationship with a woman named Selby. And during that very same time, she also began murdering her clientele in order to get money without using sex. This turned the tables on a rather common phenomena of female highway prostitutes being the victims of serial killers—instead Wuornos, herself, carried out the deeds of a cold-blooded killer. —IMDb

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Edna Sweetlove

21May12

I needed subtitles as these were Southern redneck peasants. Mind you, "Aaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh" as you get a bullet in your guts is fairly multi-lingual and needs no translation.

robotkathleen

11Dec11

One massively problematic movie for me, so many contradictions, double-standards and compromised intentions. I felt like I was watching a movie-within-a-movie, and extra-weird sense of artifice (intensified by then watching the actor's acceptance speech at the Oscars), such a painfully different reality to the one Wuornos lived. Any good intention in making this film is quite compromised.

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ILoveCourtneyHate

22May11

I feel there is a definite connection between this and Badlands too, almost a sort of conpanion piece, which i think is very interesting to explore.
Bushra Toppa

1Aug11

i read somewhere that it takes an actress who lacks vanity to play this role and i for the life of me never forgot that. she gained thirty pounds and rid her face of any redeeming beauty but also was very uninhibited and raw in her performance. serial killers like aileen wuornos seem to never really had a chance.