Monster was an amazing film. Charlize Theron got what she deserved when she won the Oscar for her role. She portrayed the characted better than anyone could, and she looked almost exact to the real person. I loved the relationship between Aileen and Selby, so in love, almost too much. I loved every single minute of it, although I did not like how it ended! It was mighty sad in my opinion!

Honestly, Aileen was a very disturbed individual. She had a tragic life that left her a victim of circumstance...or "principle" as she would call it. I do believe, however, that once she killed Richard Mallory in self-defense, that it drove her all the way over the edge & she continued the cycle as a sort of post-traumatic stress disorder. Ther were theories that she was killing her father in these cases, which is very conceivable, but I think it was something like she felt she had to do it for some reason that was only connected with the violent psychosis of the first murder. It was like she kept living it over & over in her head, so every time she got in the car with another "John", she felt that's what she had to do to protect herself, whether they (the johns) had those intentions or not.
By now you're probably asking "why didn't she just stop hooking if she was so scared?" Good question. She'd been a prostitute nearly her entire life, In fact, it was her life. Any time she tried to quit, she'd always go back.

It's what she did.

It's what she was.


Biographies:

CourtTV.com
AskMen.com


P.S. I though this was kind of eerie...
"[Charlize Theron]Won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance as Aileen Wuornos on what would have been Aileen's 48th birthday. (29 February 2004)" ~ taken from Charlize Theron's mini biography on imdb.com.