Selling Of A Serial Killer Analysis

Selling of a Serial Killer is a documentary directed by Nick Broomfield. The documentary film was an interview of Aileen with many interesting twists in the story. The film is about Aileen Wuornos who is a prostitute, in her twenties, who admitted that she killed seven men. Aileen was labeled by the FBI as the first female serial killer. Although, it took Aileen months to plead no contest of the murders she was sentenced six life sentences. Her girlfriend/lover of over five years Tyria Moore was not charged even though she was involved with the crime. Tyria fled the scene to go home to her family in Ohio leaving Aileen behind where the cops came and took Aileen. Tyria betrayed and testified Aileen in court. In addition, Tyria became the witness of the police against Aileen. She tells the courtroom if they want her to die, she will die. Tyria tricked Aileen into confessing that Aileen was the one who killed all 7 men. There was a lot of controversy of this story because there were many sides to it from various people that knew Aileen Wuornos. The public seen her as a psychotic serial killer and people that knew her seen her as sweet and innocent with a heart of gold. The principal subject of this documentary is to investigate whether Aileen Wuornos was really guilty or innocent in this case.

The principal purpose of this film was to interview people that knew Aileen Wuornos to find out information about her. The documentary filmmaker wanted to know what type of person Aileen really was because she was perceived as many things. It does argue a position because it may be hard to see the actually truth when there is so many different stories coming from people that knew who she was. They interviewed Dick Mills in the documentary ...

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...talk about Aileen because it can say so much of how they really feel about her or their reaction towards the situation. The kind of response that the filmmaker seeks to evoke by using these subjects

Overall, in my opinion it was a tough documentary to understand. I watched it at least four times to get a better grasp of the story line. It was kind of confusing in my perspective because I felt they could have done a better explanation of the story. I wasn’t sure myself of what was the point of the documentary that they are trying to display. I had to do some outside research to understand the real reason. Other than that, I did like the concept of the documentary and how they interviewed several people in the film. In addition, I believed the news clippings in the film were very effective because it shows that they did their research and backing up their evidence.