Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer
Documentary • R • 1992 • 1 hr 27 min
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Interesting true story with what happened to her as a child it's no wonder shel ended up being a serial killer
I had only ever seen Monster with Charlize Theron. Wow Aileen was surrounded by vultures. So sad. Netflix would have loved this trial.
This was hard to watch, but demonstrates how complicated our society can be.
Memorable and shocking.
Interesting!
Lenta. Muy lenta
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In this documentary, filmmaker Nick Broomfield follows the saga of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who has been accused of committing a brutal series of murders. Broomfield conducts interviews with Wuornos herself, and his crew films her trial as well as her interactions with religious fanatic Arlene Pralle, who gives Wuornos dubious advice and legally adopts her. The cameras also roll as the accused's attorney ignores the case at hand to negotiate a deal to sell his client's story.
British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Interviewing an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, Broomfield captures the distorted mind of a murderer whom the state of Florida deems of sound mind -- and therefore fit to execute. Throughout the film, Broomfield includes footage of his testimony at Wuornos' trial.
