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Oscar Flashback: Monster (2003)
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"What's an Oscar Flashback (tm)? Read here: Next on my Netflix queue was Monster, for which Charlize Theron won the Best Actress Oscar (film year, 2003; awarding year, 2004). The other nominees for Best Actress in this category were: 21 Grams - Naomi Watts In America - Samantha Morton Something's Gotta Give - Diane Keaton Whale Rider - Keisha Castle-Hughes This movie also represents the second of five LGBT-themed Oscar movies at the top of my Netflix q "
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"Are you one of the many sci-fi and comic book geeks who’d be more interested in Push were it not for Dakota Fanning? Sure, the precocious child star is now a teen actress (she’s about to turn 15), yet that probably makes you even more worried about her appearance in the movie. But what can you do? She’s literally everywhere this week – voicing the title character in the animated Coraline and starring in two new video releases, Hounddog and The Secret Life of Bees, both of which were released Tuesday. In the tradition of child actors continuing careers into adolescence, it’s only a matter of time before she ruins a movie that would have been better without her. We’ll have to wait until this weekend to see if that time is now, with Push, but in the meantime let’s take a look at some of the past offenders in this tradition. Most of the following "
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"I think I would have liked Monster more if I didn't know that it was based on actual events. I liked the film's ideas but somehow never totally connected with the material on an emotional level. I think that the reason is that I saw the pictures of Aileen Wuornos on death row, and read reviews of a documentary that Nick Broomfield had made about her. I think that I might have been more receptive to Jenkin's message if the protagonist of her film was a totally fictional character, and was thus had nothing to compare it to. The movie's thesis is that Aileen Wuornos, a serial killer who was executed in Florida a year before the film was released, was doomed from the day she was born. Despite her crimes, she is essentially a good person, but she is uneducated and was never given anything approaching a fair chance or lucky break. Born in Michigan, her father was a serial child molester who commited suicide in prison, her mother abandonded her and she was raised by her grandparents, ... "
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"By Tricia Olszewski There's a lot of ugliness in Monster, and despite the publicity about extra pounds and prosthetics, it's not all courtesy of Charlize Theron. Theron is indeed unrecognizable in her lead role as Aileen Wuornos, the prostitute-turned-serial-kille r who was convicted of the late-'80s murders of six johns and executed in a Florida prison in 2002. But this unsettling biopic, the debut of writer-director Patty Jenkins, manages to transcend the usually distracting beauty-goes-beast trick and keep the focus on a life gone south. Jenkins swaddles Wuornos' crimes in a love story that's as cringe-inducing as it is tender. Monster begins on the night Aileen, soaked from the rain and looking half past dead, ambles into a Daytona Beach gay bar under the ruse that her truck broke down. She catches the eye of a desperately lonely young woman named Selby (Christina Ricci). Selby is an Ohio transplant, sent to Florida by her father in the hope that her hyper-religious aunt and ... "
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