FILM REVIEW
Monster
Director: Patty Jenkins
Cast: Charlize Theron, Christina
Ricci, Bruce Dern, Pruitt Taylor Vince
Classification: tba
Running Time: tba
Opens On: 27 February
2004
Charlize Theron stars in
"Monster", a shockingly moving film that burrows deep beneath
the tabloid-sized headline stories on Aileen Wuornos, the
man- eating - and murdering - serial killer executed in 2002
in Florida.
Director Patty Jenkins
unearths a love story in the midst of the horrors and
pathologies of two misfits: Wuornos, a drifter prostitute
who kills many of her "johns" and Selby Wall (Christina
Ricci), sent by her parents to live with an aunt in Florida
in order to "cure her homosexuality". Nearing suicidal
despair, Aileen wanders into a bar, where she meets Selby
and falls in love. To keep her and Selby's relationship
alive, she continues hooking, only to fuel an increasingly
escalating deadly rage, a fury vented with a lurid string of
killings and the media's sordid designation of her as the
first female serial killer - a monster.
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