Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
Tues 8 Jan 2008 10pm
Documentary from Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill tracing America's most renowned contemporary murderess.
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About Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
In 1992, British documentary maker Nick Broomfield made Aileen Wuornos: The Selling Of A Serial Killer. The film was an insightful, justifiably judgemental record of how those around prostitute-turned-murderess Wuornos - who had been convicted of killing seven men, but always pleaded self-defence - had tried to sell her story to Hollywood.
Broomfield indicted members of the Florida state police department, Wuornos' Born Again Christian mother, and even her haphazard hippy lawyer. With Aileen: the Life And Death Of A Serial Killer he returns to this most potent of subjects. While he returns to threads set up in the first film (it's pointed out that a case of the corrupt Florida cops was never pursued), here Broomfield aims even higher - indicting the whole US legal system for not just failing Wuornos, but for also insisting upon capital punishment.
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Nick Broomfield to the press, outside the prison, "We are executing someone who is mad" |
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