Erin Warnos (Charlize Theron) had a miserable and icy childhood, and her family had nothing to give her but beatings, abuse, and abuse. She had fantasized about being a sparkling star or getting true love, but Prince Charming never came to rescue her. In order to make a living, Irene had to sell her body since she was 13 years old. Later, she left Michigan for Florida, where she became a prostitute for truck drivers who drove long distances on the highway. Time passed between the commercial streets, gas stations, and low-end bars like this, living as if desperate and helpless to wait for an end, until Erin met the young Shelby Wall (Christina Rich).
It was a stormy night, and Irene had the last five dollars left. She wanted to kill herself for one last drink, but it was in the run-down lesbian bar that she and Shelby met for the first time. Shelby is a rebellious girl with absolutely no hope for the future. Her devout parents, who hated her lesbian sexuality, drove her to Florida to live with an old aunt. Erin had never been interested in women, but after talking to Hilby for the first time, she decided to spend the night with her. Shelby's warmth and care is something new and unfamiliar that Irene has never gotten in her life, so Irene and Shelby soon become a pair of close lovers, Shelby moved out from her aunt's house, and Erin lives in a motel together.
Erin decides to stop doing the flesh business and find a legitimate and dignified career, but her unrealistic illusions about society and the lack of work skills make her suffer from constant humiliation and hurt during job interviews. In order to maintain the life of the two, Irene had to resume her old business on the side of the highway again.
Once, Erin met a sadistic client who was violent to her. In self-defense, Erin shot the man, buried his body and stole his money and car, and a nightmarish twist of fate finally came...
The young and ignorant Hillby kept asking Erin for more things, and a certain bond in Erin's heart seemed to be snapped off at that moment, and she began to kill more and more frequently, from young boys to gentlemen From a homely man to a police officer in plain clothes, brutal and cruel, regardless of the reason...
This film is based on a real case, the murder of a road prostitute was a sensation in the United States in the early 1990s. Erin Warnos killed a total of six men (including a police officer) from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. She was sensationally dubbed "America's first female serial killer" by the media, and the entire case went on trial for a decade. Erin Warnos has confessed to the murders, but she has always argued that she did it only in self-defense against the violence she encountered while providing sexual services. On October 9, 2002, Erin Warnos was executed in Florida.
Unlike Nick Broomfield's two previous documentaries about Erin Warnos, Patty Jenkins' film does not focus on judging the American justice system and the mass media , but instead focuses on character building and storytelling. In Warnos' confession, the desperate and repressed relationship between her and her gay lover, Shelby Wall, was accidentally brought up, and first-time screenwriter Patty Jenkins pulled it out to add Expanded to make this love story the mainline of this low-budget film.
From February 4, 2003 to mid-March, the film was set in Florida, which is also the real location and environment where Erin Warnos committed crimes between 1989 and 1990. As a film based on reality, the film's anti-heroic tendencies are very clear, and critics pointed out: "The Devil's Head is a film that escapes the popular media's long-standing perception of Wonos as an unrepentant monster. Rather, it tries to find a balance between morbid and emotional. It's like a homage to the great iconoclastic American films of the '60s and '70s."
To some critics who thought the film was too warm, director Patty Jenkins responded: "Maybe people will see it as a sharp social criticism film, maybe a passionate road movie, but I think it's a The most important part of this film is the relationship between people. We are just trying to calmly record the last few months of free time that happened to Vonos, she was a monster, or just this cruel and dirty Victims of the world? That's the question this film wants to ask."
This is another extreme film, still showing the madness shown for the love in his heart.
But sometimes I think that there is no real love between them. Irene is like a little stray dog, defending the only master Shabi who is close to him to the death. As for Shabi, perhaps more of it is to ask, to add a little color and interest to her boring and rebellious life.
Irene, who has lived in the wild for a long time, has long faced the dirty, cruel, abused and beaten in society for a long time. Irene, who lives at the bottom of society, has long faced the most primitive animal desires of men, and her body is more of that kind. Animality, she can no longer integrate into human society, nor can she understand the so-called rules, order and ethics in human society.
Monster, usually caused by more monsters, has lived in the wild side of human beings since childhood, and she will naturally become a monster. As Irene said, Shabby doesn't understand her world at all, she has never been loved, so when care and warmth come, it shines on her like sunshine and rain, she doesn't want to lose this only beautiful thing.
And Shabi was human, she made the only right choice from human standards.
Irene is like a stray dog she picked up on the street. When a stray dog bites other people for its owner, she cannot escape to the wild with the stray dog, but will only send it to the police.
Shabi is maintaining her own life, and the instinctive selfishness in human nature has overcome her love, but Irene betrayed her path and released more beasts for Shabi. How can a beast have love?
Either keep being a monster, or keep being a person.
Either die or let someone else die.
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