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: People always look down their noses at hookers. Never give you a chance, because they think you took the easy way out, when no one could imagine the willpower it took to do what we do. Walking the streets, night after night, taking the hits and still getting back up.

  • Selby: I just wanna live, Lee. I just want a normal happy life. I don't know why you did this.

    Aileen: Because I love you. Because I love you and I never wanna to loose you and that's all. I love you from my heart, my soul, my mind. And I never let you down. All right? Because it was me. It was only me. And I'll tell them that, ok. It's over for me now. And I never gonna see you again.

    Selby: Yeah, I know.

    Aileen: I wish there was a way that people can forgive you for something about this, you know. But they can't. They can't, man. So I gonna die, Sel... Hey Sel, I'll never forget you. Good bye, baby. Bye baby.

    Selby: Good bye, Lee.