Monster

Overview:  Basiclly being abused her entire life, Aileen Wuornos runs from her family and lives the life of a hooker.  When the abuse became too much she became a "Monster", and ended up killing almost everyone who picked her up.  amidst all this she falls in love with a young girl named Selby, but even that couldn't save her from flushing her life down the toilet.

The Good:  Well slice off some broccoli and serve it to a crohns diseased kid, was some of the finest acting I’ve ever seen on film!  Let’s add Charlize  Theron to the make-yourself-uglier-for-a-movie-role-and-you’ll-win-an-Oscar category, because she is now one of them lemmings.  She was such a great actress in this movie that I didn’t even know it was Charlize Theron 90% of the time, and the only way you can tell it was her is if you’re utterly obsessed, and in that case you need to stop while you’re ahead because being married to a celebrity never works.  Charlize wasn’t the only brilliant performance on screen, Christina Ricci played Aileen’s companion with the relish!  Christina has always pursued the comically creepy roles, and this time she’s creepy but not comical at all.  It’s true she is not the head actress in this movie, but it’s with her that you feel a majority of the emotion with.  One last congrats to Charlize Theron for not making Aileen look like a hero at the end of the movie, I’m sick of movies that praise the villains and damn the heroes.

The Bad:  Man do I feel like I need a sponge bath! Any takers, no?  this film may have been superb, but it is about as white trash as a movie can possibly get…  except the movie “you’ve got served”, no film can touch that trash.  I seriously felt dirty after seeing this, hence the sponge bath request.  You see how gritty and disgusting the life of a prostitute can be, and it may be a problem for certain people.  It isn’t a film I’d be likely to watch again because of how depressing it can be, instead I’ll watch Charlize in “the Italian Job” where it’s fun and chipper, and Christina in “The Adam’s Family” where she’s….. Still creepy.

The Ugly:  The ugly truth for this movie actually is ugly, and disgusting.  It is a wonderful movie that paints (to my knowledge) a fairly accurate portrait of how abuse at a young age, if not treated, can really harm a person’s perception of reality later on in life.  This is an excellent film that needs to be experienced at least once, then after that you should probably shower and then put on a Disney film or something.

3 out of 5