Absolutely Fantastic

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Had to be done for someone and it was made by a British filmmaker Nick Broomfield who made a fine approach of this matter,the society is ill and Aileen Wuornos was a final product of this,he explores all phases of Aileen's life since the beginning seeking for a reason and found many things that could explain how it happened this way....also interviewed her and is quite clear that was disturbed,mentally unbalanced for such pressure in jail and the media...the final days that preceded your execution in that early morning was sad...l'm so sorry for Aileen asking for your death somehow wasn't in vain...that the society take care our children carefully.Resume:First watch: 2007 / How many: 2 / Source: Cable TV-Netflix / Rating: 8

This is the second documentary about Aileen Wuornos that Nick Broomfield has made. She is still alluded to as America's first female serial killer- she was neither the first nor the most prolific - but for good reason she holds a special place in the halls of infamy. One is entitled to ask what is his fascination with a woman who had no redeeming qualities at all, but that is a fascination shared by many people. Had Wuornos been a man - and of course there are plenty of male serial killers who have racked up greater death counts - there would have been none of this, although there would rightly have been plenty of revulsion.This film includes interviews with many people, including of course with the damsel of death herself, right up to the eve of her execution. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

I first saw the Oscar winning performance of an unrecognisable Charlize Theron in Monster, and then I saw the original 1993 documentary film from British filmmaker Nick Broomfield (Biggie & Tupac), I was looking forward to this second documentary that also featured in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. Whereas the first film focused on interviews with all the people that knew and had acquaintance with Aileen Carol Wuornos, the former prostitute and America's first female serial killer, and ending of course with the interview of the woman herself, this film focused on the last days of her life before her execution, sentenced for seven counts of murder in the state of Florida. There is much more explanation of the life Wuornos had before turning to prostitution and of course becoming the savage murderer, including her troubled childhood where her father Leo Dale Pittman may have abused her, becoming homeless and forced to live out in the open, becoming a prostitute and spending most of her time on the road, and information about the seven men she killed, she claimed it was all in self defence, but there is no evidence to suggest this being true. The big difference with this followup film is the Broomfield gets to have much more time with Aileen, and it is obvious that her mental state is declining, with her twisted theories that the authorities are trying to mess with her in her cell, and her deluded reasons for killing the seven men, she did not want to talk all details on camera, but her true feelings were caught without her knowledge. Aileen was getting especially angry that her execution was constantly being changed and delayed, because she had to keep waiting to die which she apparently wanted to happen, she had already been sentenced to death seven times, but eventually a date was confirmed in 2003, when the judge ruled her mentally stable to go ahead (this is debatable). Broomfield does get to talk to her once more time, the day before her death, asking how she was really feeling and what she would be thinking about before the lethal injection would be carried out, and he also mentioned interviewing her mother Diane who asked for her forgiveness, she refused to do so and left the final interview angry, not necessarily with him, but with the authorities and stuff. With interviews and footage from Jesse 'The Human Bomb' Aviles, Cannonball, Sgt. Brian Jarvis and Mike Reynolds. This documentary is much more close and personal than the original, especially with having more interview time and footage of Wuornos, she was clearly insane and demented with her views on the world, and showed no remorse for the murders, with disgusting verbal insults to the authorities and opinions, she did at least open up more, but she deserved what she got, and this is a terrificly engaging documentary film about her. Good!

to see films like this. When the media dehumanizes a person for profit, and thanks to Nick Broomfield, we see the other side. A 13 year old girl raped and impregnated by her grandfather, who slept in the freezing Michigan forest when her family kicked her out of their house.Shame on Diane, Aileen's mother, who sits and states that Aileen loved living as a homeless person. The denial in this abusive family is rampant. I was actually angry and upset by this film.Actions have consequences. Abuse starts at home, and this entire situation escalated to the point it did because an abused woman finally lost her grip on life, she had no help, no means of support, and the state of Florida was only too pleased to step in and garner media attention during an election year.Capital punishment does not provide a deterrent (this is a scientific fact) but it does prove man's inhumanity. Thank you Mr. Broomfield for this upsetting documentary. 10/10.