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Comparing Aileen - Life and Death of a Serial Killer & When We Were Kings

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Comparing Aileen - Life and Death of a Serial Killer & When We Were Kings "Aileen - Life and Death of a serial killer" - this is Nick Broomfield's second documentary on Aileen Carol Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was executed in 2002 for killing seven men in the state of Florida. "When We Were Kings" - A documentary of the 1974 heavyweight championship belt in Zaire, between champion George Foreman and underdog challenger Muhammad Ali. The documentary about Aileen Wuornos (Aileen - the life and death of a serial killer) brings us to believe that Aileen suffers from borderline personality disorder, which brings an overwhelming fear of abandonment. When that fear escalated, it could well have been the trigger for what Aileen called her "killing days." This disorder would be what drove her to kill. Nick Broomfield (the director) delves into the depths of Aileen's childhood, portraying that her childhood is most...

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