I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Truly Dreadful Film

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

OK, documentary. Nick Bloomfield had more sympathy for a serial killer than the people that she killed. Yes, Aileen had a horrible life, but still does not give her an excuse to kill innocent people. Aileen said outrages things to Nick because she knew she could manipulate him and he bought it hook, line, and sinker. Aileen had Nick wrapped around her little finger because he believed her lies and every story that she told him. Very bias documentary in favor of a serial killer.

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.

If you're familiar with Broomfield's "Selling of a Serial Killer" you're probably comfortable with the directors off cheek way of recording events, almost as if it was shot for a home-video rather than for the BBC. It is difficult to dislike Broomfield, his gentle speech, his unkempt, casual appearance and unpretentious ways. "Selling" was a strange brew, documenting the trial of female serial killer Aileen Wuornos, concentrating on society's attempt to profit from her life, crimes, trial and consequently her death. Shot ten years later, "Life and Death of a Serial Killer" shows us Aileen during the last stage of her trial and her final days before execution. Comparing both films, "Life and Death" is the more important document.Interviewing Aileen, her childhood friends and relatives (many as disturbed/disturbing as Aileen herself), Broomfield shows us the underbelly of America; this is not the Hollywood America, this is the world of the so-called "white trash", the "rednecks" and the "hicks"; a land that was somehow left behind, forgotten by time and progress. It begs to question how anybody could have grown up completely normal in such an environment and how much more monstrosity lies beneath the facade of Norman Rockwell's Americana.More important, Broomfield questions the validity of the death penalty, and even though he makes no effort to hide his personal stance, his points are neither patronizing nor judgemental. There is no lecturing with a pointed finger; the director is simply there, recording a woman who is as obviously guilty as she is obviously insane. Lawyers and sycophants tried to profit from Aileen's crimes in "Selling" – in "Life and Death", Broomfield shows how the media circus and politicians (this being an election year) try to profit from her death.It could have been easy to portray Aileen as a "Monster", hiding under the disguise of a human being, but there is no "Monster" in this film. The director opts to talk to her one-on-one, showing us a human being who, again, is undoubtedly guilty but who would in any other part of the so-called First World, have ended up in a mental institution. "It makes you wonder what you have to do to fail", Broomfield muses over a competence test, referring to state of a society rather than the accused.At times the viewer finds himself captured by the 'charm of the psychopath', believing Aileen's stories of abuse, poverty and hardship. On many levels those stories may be true, but with time it becomes very clear that we're dealing with a very confused woman. About 20 minutes into the documentary, Aileen (having discovered Christ and feeling the need to "come clean") admits that she killed in cold blood, 'not for the thrill but for the bounty'. It is one of her most sincere moments, yet we see the wide stare of a schizophrenic; a mind so warped that it cannot distinguish between truth, lie or make-believe anymore.There's a feeling of sincerity throughout Broomfield's works, not only questioning the subject but also questioning the filmmakers methods. In one scene, an attorney accuses the director of 'manipulation' by having edited scenes from "Selling". Those court scenes add very little to the progress of the film and Broomfield could have easily cut them out. He kept them, almost as if to ask the viewer: "how far can you be manipulated yourself" and "where does fact end and fiction start". How far can you trust your eyes in our modern, media-driven world? Sadly, this remains one of Broomfield's lesser known works – I bought the DVD for 99 cent from a cheapo-bin, still slightly confused as to why there are so many more populist, manipulative and exploiting documentaries (Michael Moore comes to mind) selling for way more.

She was a "Frank Breech Birth" according to her mother, Diane, who claimed that Aileen, might have been brain damaged during birth even though it was her impression that she was mentally competent. The last few scenes are chilling and makes one think twice about competency hearing and death penalty. She was seen by three shrinks for 20 minutes each few days before the execution and declared competent. Broomfield's introspective statement one of the best one liners-"How badly you have to perform to be declared incompetent?" She disowned and despised her mother. The mother's action probably triggered her rage and the abuse by men made her deranged and impulsive. She did not accept the mothers plea thru the interviewer, to forgive her, even though she had no contact with her mother for over 25 years. She claimed that the family was decent but were too strict, She was thrown out of the house after at 13, to live in snow in a truck with the four wheels resting on cinder blocks. Her last wishes for her to be cremated and ashes to be scattered over estate in Michigan, and the last song to be played at the wake "Carnival" by Natalie Merchant, is sad and poignant. The best piece of the film, is when Nick Broomfield gives an interview to the media, on day of the execution and the camera is focused on the media for their reaction and one female news reporter(a stunningly attractive woman) makes incredible professional facial gestures, to hide her tears from the camera. If she (Wuornos) was a "Monster" that she was made up to be, why shed tears? This only confirms that her execution was more political than based on principle. She certainly was a tortured soul on earth.