Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I finally got around to seeing this film, and what a disappointment. The love this film received from critics and the Academy is completely unwarranted, yet its understandable on some level.Seems like films that display any sort of racial progress and highlight actors of "color" get positive reviews regardless of they quality of filmmaking. There is no better example of this than "Monster's Ball".Halle Berry's performance was fine, but there are some issues with her being cast in a role like this. She's too thin and attractive, and frankly she looks too white to be believable in such a role. Are we really supposed to believe a woman that looks like her gave birth to an obese child? So, I was conflicted as to whether BBT's character finally saw the errors of his ways and now loves black folk, or whether Halle Berry was so hot, he couldn't resist her.These are just some of the many issues with this film. In short, its another example of political correctness trumping Art.

The movie is basically a f**k you to all the black people out there. It basically portrays a racist white man as a noble hearted gentleman who saves a black women from the rotting life she is stuck in.I don't mind the love story but it doesn't have a basis for it to form in the world,it all just happens because the women is vulnerable and ready to fall into the racist man's arms. I truly wanted to vomit after watching this propagandist bullshit.

this was a wonderful heart filled movie very realistic and deals with real life and racism especially for the south. billy bob, Halle Berry Dark melodrama about the strange intersection of racism and emotional need. billy turns from a racist redneck, scaring his son's black friends off his property with a gun to getting a black girl and loving one and (Halle Berry's 10-minute soft(not so soft teehee) porn scene for "art's sake") The acting in "Monster's Ball" isn't really acting. It transcends that definition. The characters seem real, and their situations seem real. As for the infamous, gratuitous sex scene - yes, it was a little unnecessary. But overall, this film is great one last note the south needs to wake up like Billy's character we are all the same its rich vs poor not black vs white :)jesus was killed for being black lets stop the hate and learn the truth. AMEN - ヅ ツ ッ シ *and to the people that rate it under 4 stars they just morons and don't understand it and the meaning of the lovely story wounder why they watch WWE and think its real and there in there 30-50s lmao if u over 15 and watch that yea prob don't have common sense nor a sex life booyah ya just got owned * :O

I think that an important aspect of this story is the fact that two ordinary characters, Hank and Leticia, who went through dramatic and tragic life experiences, and who live in a place where racism get apart persons of different ethnicities, are capable of developing a true love between them. Hank is a guy who worked all his life as a prison guard. His son who was also a prison guard is murdered. Leticia is a woman who works as a waiter in a café. Her husband was executed in the prison where Hank worked and her beloved son dies in consequence of having being hit by a car. They live in a place where racism is alive and where Hank's father is an example of this nasty culture. I would say that this film is much stronger and human than "Un Homme Et Une Femme" of Claude Lelouch. So much stronger, that there was no need of a musical sound track like that beautiful song of Francis Lai. In time, I don't know if the sex scenes were really necessary, or if they could have been filmed in a different way, less explicit.