Benedito Dias Rodrigues Had to be done for someone and it was made by a British filmmaker Nick Broomfield who made a fine approach of this matter,the society is ill and Aileen Wuornos was a final product of this,he explores all phases of Aileen's life since the beginning seeking for a reason and found many things that could explain how it happened this way....also interviewed her and is quite clear that was disturbed,mentally unbalanced for such pressure in jail and the media...the final days that preceded your execution in that early morning was sad...l'm so sorry for Aileen asking for your death somehow wasn't in vain...that the society take care our children carefully.Resume:First watch: 2007 / How many: 2 / Source: Cable TV-Netflix / Rating: 8

a_baron This is the second documentary about Aileen Wuornos that Nick Broomfield has made. She is still alluded to as America's first female serial killer- she was neither the first nor the most prolific - but for good reason she holds a special place in the halls of infamy. One is entitled to ask what is his fascination with a woman who had no redeeming qualities at all, but that is a fascination shared by many people. Had Wuornos been a man - and of course there are plenty of male serial killers who have racked up greater death counts - there would have been none of this, although there would rightly have been plenty of revulsion.This film includes interviews with many people, including of course with the damsel of death herself, right up to the eve of her execution. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Sindre Kaspersen English writer, producer, film editor and documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield's 15th documentary feature and second documentary about American serial killer Aileen Wuornos (1956-2002) who was executed by lethal injection in Florida, USA after having been on death row for twelve years. It premiered at the 2nd Tribeca Film Festival in 2003, was screened in the Real to Reel section at the 28th Toronto International Film Festival in 2003 and is a UK-USA co-production which was co-directed by documentary filmmaker, cinematographer and producer Joan Churchill and produced by producer Jo Human. It tells the story about Aileen Carol Wuornos, an American-born woman who was brought up in the city of Rochester in the state of Michigan after her birth in 1956. Aileen's parents Leo Pittman and Diane Wuornos who came from Finland to America as immigrants were divorced before she was born and she never met her father who after spending many years in prison for having raped a 7-year-old girl, hanged himself. In 1960 when Aileen was about to turn 4-years-old, her mother abandoned her and her one-year older brother Keith leaving them with their grandparents Lauri and Britta who that same year legally adopted their two grandchildren. Already as a teenager and after having been sexually abused by her grandfather and having a consensual sexual relationship with her brother, Aileen began supporting herself through prostitution. She became pregnant in 1970 after supposedly having been raped, but after the birth of her son she had to put him up for adoption. Shortly after her childbirth she dropped out of school, and as a 15-year-old girl she started living in the woods after having been kicked out of her grandparents' house by her grandfather. Aileen spent many years hitchhiking and living in Southeast America as a vagrant, a prostitute and a criminal, and while staying in the city of Daytona Beach, Volusia County, Florida in 1986 as a 30-year-old woman, she met a 24-year-old hotel maid named Tyria Moore at a gay bar. Aileen and Tyria became a couple, but all though this good thing might have improved her outlook on life and provided her with a sense of prospect, this little spark of love might also have instigated her road to damnation and her yearning desire to avenge the men who during her adolescent years had taken away so much of her dignity, deprived her of her innocence and made her life a living and endless nightmare. This biographical early 21st century documentary which is narrated by British filmmaker Nick Broomfield and which had its theatrical release approximately seven months after 46-year-old Aileen Wuornos' death penalty had been carried out in the State of Florida in October 2002, is an illuminating true story which in an investigative manner examines the life and upcoming death of a lawless woman who suffered an almost unimaginably horrifying childhood and who throughout her life was deceived by the ones that were closest to her. All though confessing to having murdered seven men in late 1989 and early 1990 after being arrested in 1991, Aileen Wuornos (1956-2002) claimed that many of them had raped her and that she was acting in self-defence. While taking a clear stand on the practice of capital punishment and more specifically the execution of people who are mentally insane, this unsentimental depiction of a death row inmate's deteriorating mental state which is notable for Nick Broomfield's presence in front of the camera, his rare voice-over narration, his commendable interviews and conversations with Aileen Wuornos, the timely use of music and the atmospheric score by composer Rob Lane, gives a neglected, exploited and tortured person who was pushed over the edge and who eventually retaliated, a voice. Aileen Wuornos was both a victim and an executioner and all though this documentary is lesser concerned with the families of the victims, in scrutinizing the gruesome crimes and tries to establish whether or not she was acting in self-defence, it does not in any way attempt to exonerate the perpetrator or paint an incandescent picture of her. Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill's understanding portrayal of a person with an explosive and violent temper who in a state of madness and faced with the ultimate judgment seemed to be so powerless and out of touch with reality that she had lost the strength to plead for her life, essentially makes one see the possible reasons for why and how a Christian woman who hated men and placed her blame on the media, the police and society, became a murderer. This heartrending and disenchanting documentary feature is a look straight into the eyes of death which leaves a remarkably strong impression and which underlines how the name and stories of an unorthodox serial killer is used as a product.

TCall2004 The part that really blew MY mind was the serial killer's friend, Dawn Bodkins, INSISTING that gay people did not exist until recently.WTF? THAT woman clearly ingested too many drugs in her youth - what a stupid thing to say!.Wrounos' mother, Diane - this woman abandoned her kids and she's acting as if she knew nothing about the hell her daughter went through (sleeping in the woods in the Michigan winter, etc.) I guess it never occurred to her that she might have had something to do with the way Aileen turned out!Wrounos belonged in an insane asylum, not executed. And this comes from a lifelong proponent of capital punishment. Something was clearly mentally wrong with that woman! The last interview proved it.Scary - but you can't look away