Aileen Wournos..

[missjef]

Is anybody else watching Monster on Channel 4 this evening?
What are you views & opinions on the film & Aileen?
I have to say that i kind of feel sorry for her, but i think this is just how the film is portraying her.
Whats everyone else think?

[ummmm]

It's based on a true story......so she was probably a lot worse than they are making out

[Dreaming]

I saw the film a while ago. ummmm is correct, its based on a true story. There was a programme about her on televsion not so long back. I did feel sorry for her too.

[Dreaming]

There were a lot worst people than here about Ward~Minter.

[Dreaming]

her even

[missjef]

i know its based on truth, i just think that she should have been given help instead of killing her.

[minimonkey]

i think she ran out of choices. she was never given a chance in life. i don't condone her actions though

[Dreaming]

I dont believe its that simple Ward~minter

[ummmm]

She killed innocent men because they wanted a shag......unless you kill children then she's as bad as you can get

[missjef]

i just think that she never had anything go right in her life, and it would have been better to try and help her than kill her, plus she always stated that it was in self defense.

[ummmm]

Yes Wardy....but at least the adult has a chance to defend themselves. The Adult also has the life skills to cop a situation that is arising. A child doesn't!!!

[mandimoo]

slightly aside - i dunno who they nominated the oscar for, but i thought therons acting was way o.t.t., it was almost comedy, really contrived.

[marley2000]

i watched both the film and documentary on whom the film was based and charlizes portray was excellent. when i saw the documentary i had no sympathy for aileen because she didn't have any remorse...she suddenly seemed to in the film...there are certainly some people who seemed to have so much evil in them who deserve to die but surely a life in prison is more punishment?? most 'evil people' or simply criminals have had a bad time of it in life but not everyone who has troubles in their past turn to crime. you have to have it in you to begin with. im done now!

[missjef]

yeah, Charlize Theron got an oscar for it, i thought at the beginning half it seemed more like a romantic comedy where she met Ricci's character, which i thought was a bit wrong... it felt like the people who had made the movie were siding with Aileen almost.

[andy-hughes]

If you watch the film in tandem with Louis Theroux's fabulous documentary on Aileen Wournos, you will see that Charlize Theron's characterisation is pitched very accurately, and you have to agree with the conclusion of LT at the final meeting with Aileen before she was executed - that the State was executing a mentally ill person. I thought the film was wonderful, and the fact that is is based on fact made it all the more disturbing.

Tell me Ward-Minter, while the rest of us attempt to analyse the world around us, and reach some sort of thought-out, arguable conclusions, what do you do with the vast amount of mental energy you have left over from forming your knee-jerk fascist viewpoints in 0000000.1 seconds? Just curious.

[missjef]

I havent managed to see any documentaries on her, i am now wanting to see the Louis Theroux one though - did he actually interview her?
i just dont think that killing her was the right answer.

[ganesh]

It was a brilliant film and we were supposed to feel sorry for her ,and some of her later victims. The first guy she shot deserved it don't you think-he had brutally raped her and was going to kill her. That one could have been called self-defence.
She tried to go 'straight' (why she tried to get a lawyers secretarys job and not a shop job or something, I don't know) but she wasn't very bright and had to go back to prostitution.Her mind had been twisted by events(abused as a child) and after killing once found it easy to kill the other low-life guys because she needed the money to support her only friend.
I don't know how close to reality it is-the fact that she was in a lesbian relationship is irrelevant. I felt really sorry for her ,it was a very sad film but she was a serial killer and ultimately she had to pay for it.