MONSTER
Opening sequences
The film is based on a true story but we must always keep in mind that this, like any other true story, is situated from the perspective of one person: Aileen Wuornos. With this in mind, the details of the meeting, her state of mind, issues around how she sees those around her and, more specifically, the events leading up to and provoking the first murder, are hers alone. For some things we may have other sources of evidence - her school records detail her expulsions; her welfare etc - but the murder is purely based on Aileen's account of events.
The director [Patty Jenkins] also has a perspective on this. She has a story to tell but she also has a purpose [a set of values/ideologies] that drive the narrative of that story [how the story is told to us]. Her agenda was to tell Aileen's story and to examine why Aileen came to be the Monster of the title. The agenda is clearly also feminist. she is telling the story of a woman who saw herself as the victim of a male dominated world [a patriarchy; a misogynistic culture].
Here, then, we might see a use for McComb's theory of agenda setting, how the manner in which an event is presented can actually shape how audiences understand and come to believe that point of view, that representation. the story telling - the narrative - becomes the story that people take to be a universal 'truth' of those events, that person.
Here, then, we might see a use for McComb's theory of agenda setting, how the manner in which an event is presented can actually shape how audiences understand and come to believe that point of view, that representation. the story telling - the narrative - becomes the story that people take to be a universal 'truth' of those events, that person.
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