Halle Berry's sexy for every single second in this monster of a movie and her phenomenal, beautiful performance is just flawless, just like Halle.......is just flawless and phenomenal and beautiful and sexy for every single second in life. Billy's great, Heath's really great, Diddy's Diddy, and Peter's real nice. Monster's Ball offers true captivating characterizations, nudity, racialism with realism, and a lens into the close, personal and evil relationships that can exist up on a platter all while gently walking you down the pathway to forgiveness, to real redemption, and hope for a newer, a nicer and a much more brighter future.Halle's sweet nude scene in Monster's Ball with Billy Bob Thornton is the sweetest, best, hottest nude scene ever OMG I LOVE HALLE BERRY it's beautifully shot and beautifully written and beautifully set up and beautifully did by Halle. I love Halle Berry. She has the best body ever.

Capital punishment, racism and abusive parents feature strongly in this story about the healing power of love and its great ability to grow in even the most unlikely circumstances. The mood is often sombre and the characters' feelings of despair, grief and regret are profound. Despite all of this, the hope and comfort that unexpected love can bring is ultimately shown as being able to point the way to hope and optimism for the future. In the wrong hands, a story like this could easily have developed into a melodramatic slush-fest but fortunately in this case, the movie was directed more intelligently with uncompromising depictions of its characters and the romantic developments being presented without sentimentality.Hank Grotowski (Billy Bob Thornton) is a Georgia prison Corrections Officer who's responsible for supervising the arrangements leading up to the execution of convicted cop-killer Lawrence Musgrove (Sean Combs). Hank's team includes his son, Sonny (Heath Ledger) and on the day of the execution, when the prisoner is being led to the electric chair, Sonny becomes overwhelmed by what's happening, starts vomiting and has to break off from the detail to recover. After the execution has been carried out, Hank violently attacks his son in front of the other men in his team and then when they return home, a second attack concludes with Sonny killing himself. Hank had always hated his son for being weak and after his suicide, swiftly buries him and then resigns from his job.Hank lives with his white racist father, Buck (Peter Boyle) who's a retired Corrections Officer and a wheelchair-bound invalid. His wife had committed suicide some years earlier.Leticia Musgrove (Halle Berry) had worked hard to bring up her son Tyrell (Coronji Calhoun) during the eleven years that her husband Lawrence had been on death row awaiting the outcomes of various appeals but now, after his execution, had arrived at a real low-point facing the prospect of losing her car, her job and her house. Tyrell had inherited his father's talent for drawing but gets beaten and verbally abused by his mother because she's disgusted by his obesity. One night, Hank is driving along a stretch of road when he sees Leticia screaming for help and after discovering that Tyrell had been injured by a hit-and-run driver, takes the boy and his mother to the nearest hospital. A short time later, Tyrell dies and afterwards, Hank drives Leticia home not realising that this would lead to a relationship that would bring them both a great deal of comfort and start to make them feel human again."Monster's Ball" doesn't pull any punches in showing the pain that people in dysfunctional families can suffer or the damaging effects that a bigoted, bullying, patriarch can have on the lives of his offspring. Hank's experience of being brought up by Buck had naturally led to him becoming a racist and regarding anyone who's sensitive as being weak. The potential for this kind of attitude to continually be passed from father to son is extremely powerful and damaging and so, it's particularly ironic that in Hank's case, after suffering a dreadful tragedy in his life, he should find comfort in a relationship with a black woman whose life had also been blighted by tragedy.When Hank and Leticia meet for the first time, they don't know that they're connected by Lawrence's execution and the ways in which they both discover this information at different times and reconcile themselves to the situation, is both very powerful and brilliantly acted."Monster's Ball" is full of good performances with Peter Boyle and Heath Ledger standing out in their supporting roles. The casting of Billy Bob Thornton and Halle Berry in the leading roles is also perfect as they both make their characters believable as individuals as well as showing, in a very natural way, how well they get to appreciate each other's company. This movie is strong on simplicity and realism and it's these qualities that contribute so much to its incredible power and poignancy.

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.

Halle Berry is the most beautiful woman in the world, and a competent actress. Her Oscar for Monster's Ball is probably based more on her looks then her acting ability. Here, she is the widow of an executed murderer, Lawrence Musgrave(Sean Combs). His executioner is Hank Grotowski(Billy Bob Thornton), a racist guard whose father and son are both red necks, who don't think much of black people. Leticia(Berry), struggles as a waitress in a diner; oh yeah, the former runner up in the Miss World contest is waiting tables; give me a break. Guess what happens next? Letecia is walking down a road with her son, Tyrell, and they are struck by a car when Hank just happens by and picks them up and takes them to the hospital. The boy dies, and Halle cries on Billy Bob's shoulder. The silliness continues when they drink together and it leads to a memorable sexual encounter with a very naked Halle Berry; praise the lord. Other then her perfect body, I cannot find a reason to sit through this contrived film. Berry gets a 10 for her nude scene, but the movie is a weak 6/10.