Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

EssenceStory Well Deserved Praise

Palaest recommended

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

prelude-64123 OK, documentary. Nick Bloomfield had more sympathy for a serial killer than the people that she killed. Yes, Aileen had a horrible life, but still does not give her an excuse to kill innocent people. Aileen said outrages things to Nick because she knew she could manipulate him and he bought it hook, line, and sinker. Aileen had Nick wrapped around her little finger because he believed her lies and every story that she told him. Very bias documentary in favor of a serial killer.

Sindre Kaspersen English writer, producer, film editor and documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield's 15th documentary feature and second documentary about American serial killer Aileen Wuornos (1956-2002) who was executed by lethal injection in Florida, USA after having been on death row for twelve years. It premiered at the 2nd Tribeca Film Festival in 2003, was screened in the Real to Reel section at the 28th Toronto International Film Festival in 2003 and is a UK-USA co-production which was co-directed by documentary filmmaker, cinematographer and producer Joan Churchill and produced by producer Jo Human. It tells the story about Aileen Carol Wuornos, an American-born woman who was brought up in the city of Rochester in the state of Michigan after her birth in 1956. Aileen's parents Leo Pittman and Diane Wuornos who came from Finland to America as immigrants were divorced before she was born and she never met her father who after spending many years in prison for having raped a 7-year-old girl, hanged himself. In 1960 when Aileen was about to turn 4-years-old, her mother abandoned her and her one-year older brother Keith leaving them with their grandparents Lauri and Britta who that same year legally adopted their two grandchildren. Already as a teenager and after having been sexually abused by her grandfather and having a consensual sexual relationship with her brother, Aileen began supporting herself through prostitution. She became pregnant in 1970 after supposedly having been raped, but after the birth of her son she had to put him up for adoption. Shortly after her childbirth she dropped out of school, and as a 15-year-old girl she started living in the woods after having been kicked out of her grandparents' house by her grandfather. Aileen spent many years hitchhiking and living in Southeast America as a vagrant, a prostitute and a criminal, and while staying in the city of Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida in 1986 as a 30-year-old woman, she met a 24-year-old hotel maid named Tyria Moore at a gay bar. Aileen and Tyria became a couple, but all though this good thing might have improved her outlook on life and provided her with a sense of prospect, this little spark of love might also have instigated her road to damnation and her yearning desire to avenge the men who during her adolescent years had taken away so much of her dignity, deprived her of her innocence and made her life a living and endless nightmare. This biographical early 21st century documentary which is narrated by British filmmaker Nick Broomfield and which had its theatrical release approximately seven months after 46-year-old Aileen Wuornos' death penalty had been carried out in the State of Florida in October 2002, is an illuminating true story which in an investigative manner examines the life and upcoming death of a lawless woman who suffered an almost unimaginably horrifying childhood and who throughout her life was deceived by the ones that were closest to her. All though confessing to having murdered seven men in late 1989 and early 1990 after being arrested in 1991, Aileen Wuornos (1956-2002) claimed that many of them had raped her and that she was acting in self-defence. While taking a clear stand on the practice of capital punishment and more specifically the execution of people who are mentally insane, this unsentimental depiction of a death row inmate's deteriorating mental state which is notable for Nick Broomfield's presence in front of the camera, his rare voice-over narration, his commendable interviews and conversations with Aileen Wuornos, the timely use of music and the atmospheric score by composer Rob Lane, gives a neglected, exploited and tortured person who was pushed over the edge and who eventually retaliated, a voice. Aileen Wuornos was both a victim and an executioner and all though this documentary is lesser concerned with the families of the victims, in scrutinizing the gruesome crimes and tries to establish whether or not she was acting in self-defence, it does not in any way attempt to exonerate the perpetrator or paint an incandescent picture of her. Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill's understanding portrayal of a person with an explosive and violent temper who in a state of madness and faced with the ultimate judgment seemed to be so powerless and out of touch with reality that she had lost the strength to plead for her life, essentially makes one see the possible reasons for why and how a Christian woman who hated men and placed her blame on the media, the police and society, became a murderer. This heartrending and disenchanting documentary feature is a look straight into the eyes of death which leaves a remarkably strong impression and which underlines how the name and stories of an unorthodox serial killer is used as a product.

rooprect Like the great Rolling Stones song in my title, this sobering film forces us to question what is evil, and what is humankind's role in creating it?Like many of you, I'm assuming, I became interested in the story of Aileen Wurnos after seeing the powerful film "Monster" with Charlize Theron (who, by the way, did an EXCELLENT job in that film. After you see this, you'll agree she totally nailed the part of the real Aileen we see here).From the opening lines, we realize that the director Nick Broomfield is biased in favour of Aileen, so if that's hard for you to swallow you might want to skip this documentary. But whether or not you think Aileen deserved to be executed, this is a great doc because it asks questions that we all should consider about the legal system, society's callousness and ultimately the death penalty.From the Rolling Stones song: "I shouted out, who killed the Kennedys? When after all, It was you and me."Similarly, this film asks the question, who killed the 7 victims? The answer, Nick Bloomfield implies, is "you and me" (human society). There is no Devil, and Aileen Wurnos isn't some supernatural spawn of Satan. She was a mentally damaged person who slipped through the cracks of society and in turn destroyed a lot of lives. Society, or rather the justice system, labeled her an abomination and exacted its revenge, washed its hands of her, and all the while made a pretty profit.What's masterful about this documentary is, even though it is very sympathetic toward Aileen in her plight, it never attempts to excuse her for her crimes. In fact it shows some very chilling outbursts of hers where we realize exactly how explosive & mentally damaged she was. This is truly a documentary for people who can process the truth in conflicting packets, not for people who see things as black & white.Other great films/documentaries that tackle controversial topics and force us to see the complexities beneath them include: "You Don't Know Jack" (2010) about Dr. Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine, "A Short Film About Killing" (1988) which is part of Kieslowsky's powerful "Decalogue" series, and an excellent doc called "The Bridge" (2006) that shows real footage of several troubled souls leaping to their deaths off the Golden Gate Bridge and analyzes what made them do it.

HereComesJean I saw monster last year, and tonight I just saw this documentary. Wow. There is so much more to this woman. Charlize Theron did a good job portraying Aileen, for a glamorous Hollywood actress of flawless beauty--of course it took pounds of added weight and makeup. But the real Aileen isn't as grotesque as Charlize looks in the movie--really. There is a certain charm about the real life woman that I saw in this doc. And a lot more anger.In this doc, we see the woman laugh and joke, she is quite playful at times. But then you look at her eyes change when she talks about her life and you can the whites and it is frightening. And sad. And raw, emotionally powerful. The real life woman she loved betrayed her. And another thing, Charlize has a deep voice, while the real Aileen has a high pitched shrilly voice. The real Aileen seems a lot crazier, a lot angrier. Like that girl in Freeway, a movie I just saw last night. Especially in the scene where she gets picked up and robs the john, and she says, "Cause I'm pissd off and the world owes me." Definitely the same kind of crazed anger and hate. Raw. That's all I have to say.