This is truly an excellent movie. I like how it stays pretty morally relativist and allow the viewer to see that Wuornos actually was a monster.
I for one are am very glad that she's dead. It's a proven fact no murderer who receives the death penalty had ever re-offended.
Theron earned her Oscar with this one.
OP: Lack of empathy is part of what makes someone a monster.
Get me a bromide! And put some gin in it!
How much sympathy did you have for Ted Bundy when you heard what he had done?
How much sympathy could you muster for this vile monster if she had murdered your father, husband or son in cold blood??
3 reasons why the death penalty should be abolished - especially in this case:
1) It's been proven over time that innocent people have wrongfully been put to death. It could easily happen to you or I - All you have to be is in the wrong place at the wrong time.
2) If you haven't noticed, it's clear Aileen Wuornos was raped by several men throughout her life. Can you imagine what kind of trauma that has on someone?
You just can't kill someone who is mentally ill.
3) This idea that somehow people can vote on someone who then has the power to kill someone is utterly ridiculous. Judges & jury should be given the freedom to hand out punishments, but at the end of the day, they're just people like the person they are killing. And who gave them that right???? JUST ANOTHER PERSON! A person of flesh & blood. Only Two entities have the right to take life - God & Fate - Which ever one you believe in.
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After you watch the 2003 documentary about Wuornos, it puts this movie in a completely different light.
She was impregnated by the local pedophile when she was only 13, raped by her brother, was kicked out of her house after she gave birth and the kid up for adoption, and then had to live in the woods at the end of her street (in Michigan which has harsh winters).
So, here, we have a mentally disturbed woman who has been a homeless prostitute since the age of roughly 13 and just snapped after possibly being brutally raped by the first of the men she killed. I'm in no way saying she was justified to kill al those men, however, this woman was not in the right of mind and should ahve been confined in a mental hospital for the remainder of her life.
It's obvious Jeb Bush used her execution to get re-elected--by the end of her life she thought her brain was being controlled by radio waves and was exhibiting symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia. Her lawyers were trying to have her be granted clemency on the grounds that she was not mentally competant to be executed. She was only interviewed by psychiatrists for 15 minutes.
She was a victim of trauma. And this isn't a male/female issue as there are several men on death row to be executed who should not be there because they're not mentally competant.
For anyone that does believe in the death penalty (I do not) some women who were cold-blooded killers include Suzanne Basso or Judy Bueneno. Wuornos was a victim of society. I don't know how anyone who lived a life like hers even made it to 35--however, like I said before, this does not excuse the fact that she murdered seven people. She was obviously not fit to live out in the real world and needed to be confined to a psychiatric hospital or life in prison.
She was crazy, a lot of people were trying to say that she was a victim, a product of what upbringing she had, back when the film came out.
"I am the ultimate badass, you do not wanna `*beep*` wit me!"- Hudson in Aliens.
So, any man who gross up to be a murderer or rapist should be let off, sent to a mental hospital for his crimes if its proven that he was horribly abused as a boy??
Yeah, that's gonna fly. lol.
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Why are you mad at her? She was killing scumbags who were using women and paying them for sex. I don't see the problem.
shareWhy are you mad at her? She was killing scumbags who were using women and paying them for sex. I don't see the problem.
'Why are you mad at her? She was killing scumbags who were using women and paying them for sex. I don't see the problem.'
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Those "scumbags" did not nothing wrong by hiring women who wanted to sell their body. They were not being used. Typical man-hating feminist sick comment. You are condoning murdering innocent men. If they were male prostitutes, would you be feeling sorry for the serial killer?
"I for one are am very glad that she's dead. It's a proven fact no murderer who receives the death penalty had ever re-offended."
And the violent degenerates she killed never re-offended either. I used to be for the death penalty as a teenager (actually, I don't know if I really supported it or just said I did for shock-value), but then I discovered this thing called critical-thinking and then I realized that things are more complected. Pro-dp only hate whom the higher authorities tell them they should hate. They tell you that Wuornos was a monster that killed people simply for the sake of being malicious and you believe it. They tell you that everyone she killed was an innocent, victimized little snowflakes and you believe it. They tell you that the killers enforcing the death penalty aren't killers because they have authoritative power and that somehow magically makes them the exception and, of course, this never seems suspicious to anyone because they're told not to find it suspicious.
It's really about power and control; she wasn't just executed because she's a murderer, she was executed because she was low on the social ladder and she stepped out of line which made her something of a threat to society as it had been set up (those with power can do whatever the hell they want and those without had better just bend over a take it). Of course, realizing this would require one to actually have thoughts that are, how to put this; "not government approved."
Example: Notice how no one cared when Aileen was being abused and raped, but they're sure to nab her when she starts to lash out.
That being said, I'm not exactly an abolitionist either; if there were a chance that we'd end up executing real parasites like juan martinez or nancy grace, I'd be all for it! Especially, if we bring back the electric chair so that we can then make a film about martinez titled, 'Small Fry'.
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the death penalty doesn't deter acts of murder...in fact, states that have the death sentence has higher murder rates than other states that don't
also, she was clearly insane and I don't really think killing someone who is insane is right
I wouldn't sentence a retard to death either....so you're safe op
the death penalty doesn't deter acts of murder...in fact, states that have the death sentence has higher murder rates than other states that don't.
also, she was clearly insane and I don't really think killing someone who is insane is right
"also, she was clearly insane and I don't really think killing someone who is insane is right"
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You feel the same way about Jeff Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, and Son of Sam, too? Or..when it's a certain gender? Please, do tell.
She knew how to get help, but chose not to. So, now do we say that she was too insane to get help for being insane? She was NOT clearly insane, she knew what she was doing. How is it clear? No hallucinations or voices in her ear. If she's that "insane", she cannot be cured, nor should be allowed to enter society.
"the death penalty doesn't deter acts of murder...in fact, states that have the death sentence has higher murder rates than other states that don't"
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I, and many others, don't care if it deters. The point of capital punishment is an eye-for an aye; that is not barbaric. If anything, the legal system is too soft on these matters.
The point of capital punishment is an eye-for an aye; that is not barbaric. If anything, the legal system is too soft on these matters.
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Deterrent or not, I think the main issue regarding capital punishment, is that it is biased and prejudiced. No-one on death row would be wealthy and that is one of it's main flaws. For someone like Wuronos, death was a release for her and probably the best thing to end her suffering. Even if her death did appease some of the families and friends of her victims, the punishment of death—due to fear of it by the most of the herd—is not going to bring back the victims and is hypocritical in the sense that it is state sanctioned murder. Those that are enforcing a universal law, of thou shall not kill and live in a state of bloodlust, are only undermining themselves and it is not solving a darn thing about why there is violent and horrendous crimes being perpetrated in our convoluted and dysfunctional society. The same society, that creates monsters like Wuronos.
Exorcist: Christ's power compels you. Cast out, unclean spirit.
Destinata:💩
Worse people than her remain alive.
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