Love encounters people's instincts, and they are not very reliable, whether heterosexual or homosexual.

Merl 2022-04-20 09:01:39

I made a comment after reading it for the second time. The memory of the first time is a bit long, so subjective comments will be inaccurate. A women's film based on true events, a serial murder committed by a woman working in the road prostitute business. Charlize Theron's Oscar-winning work really deserves its name in terms of performance difficulty. Why did the heroine Aileen become the Monster in the public mouth and shoot men, talk about the following two points:
1. Men. The men who abused her and the clients. The violence of her young father, she started prostitution at the age of 13, and the destruction of her by men can be imagined. When she meets a client who is violent to her, she eventually explodes with her wild beast nature. Later, the man only became the target she wanted to shoot, no matter the superficial good or evil.
2. Women. Aileen's very beloved lover is the second heroine Selby (Christina Ricci, she was said in "Black Snake Moan", she dared to act when she was very young). When Aileen was about to die, she met this girl who admired herself and was willing to listen to her, so Aileen changed her sexual orientation and fell in love with her. Selby is too young to understand the complexities of society, and when Aileen asks her to go out with her, she agrees because she can get away from reality and her unacceptable sexuality in her own family. She and Aileen were together, and the instinct of dependence kept asking, allowing Aileen to continue prostitution to meet her material needs, which eventually led to Aileen killing clients for money. When Aileen was arrested, she betrayed her out of a selfish instinct and testified against her.
PS. No matter how much evil a woman has done, she is always in a weak position relative to a man; love is not very reliable when it comes to people's instincts, whether heterosexual or homosexual.

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Monster quotes

  • Aileen: Everybody just thinks I'm this bad shitty fucking person, and all I'm fucking tryin' to do is survive, you know?

    Thomas: I know. I know what you do for a living. It doesn't bother me. I know you didn't dial it up on a goddamn telephone. That's where you landed. That's what you had to do. What you're feeling right now is just guilt, over something you had absolutely no control over. You know how many of us came back from the war? And almost killed ourselves because we felt exactly the same thing you do, right now.

    Aileen: Yeah?

    Thomas: Yeah. And they'll never get it. They'll never get it now, they never got it then, and they sure as hell won't get fucking circumstance!

    Aileen: Fuck, man, circumstance, that's exactly it, that's exactly it. You know I feel like I never even had a fucking choice.

    Thomas: You never did. But you gotta live. You gotta live.

  • Aileen: [points to the bartender] You owe me change!

    [pause]

    Aileen: Fuck it. I'm outta here!

    Selby: Oh, are you sure-

    [touches Lee's shoulder]

    Aileen: [rises from chair and pushes Selby off] GET YOUR FUCKIN' HANDS OFF ME, YOU DUMB DYKE! I'm not gonna fuck you for a fucking beer, alright? So, stop wasting your fuckin' time!