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Originally posted by taxwonk
Monster: Good acting, but I didn't like the way the screenwritier couldn't decide whether to humanize or brutalize Aileen Wournos. Charlize's physical transformation was quite complete, but I didn't see how anyone could have called her performance Oscar caliber.
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Disagree. Charlize blew me away in that movie. It went beyond the physical transformation. Who would you have picked for best actress above her?
As for the screenwriter's choice, I don't see that as a choice that needed to be made. Wournos was both human and brutal -- she started closer to one end of that spectrum and moved closer to the other, but vestiges of both were present throughout (sorta like the white and black dots in the yin and yang). Making her more human would have been a false choice -- a pastiche of the "sympathetic" serial killer. Making her more brutal would have created a character without interest, another Ted Bundy without a story worth hearing.
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Lined up for tonight or tomorrow -- Scotland, PA
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Very fun flick. I won't blow the ending for you.
