TITLE – ΤΙΤΛΟΣ Monster: A Journey beyond humanity.

This paper will attempt to work with (and not on) the film Monster (by Patty Jenkins, 2003), as a philosophical terrain, an event, which manages to queer feminist ideas on the relation of monstrosity, femininity, and desire, mainly through the Deleuzian notion of ‘becoming’, defined by D. Olkowski (1999), as: “Becoming for Deleuze and Guattari is not a metaphor, not a matter of acting like something or imitating something; it is a deterritorialization, which involves more than simply undermining or doing away with hierarchy. To deterritorialize is to run towards ‘lines of flight ’ so as to dismantle the subject, disorganize the body, or even to destabilize the state”. The film Monster is precisely this: a battlefield, a war-machine that brings about deterritorializations, not through counter-representations and negation, but through: “vibrations, rotations, whirlings, gravitations, dances or leaps, which directly touch the mind ” (Deleuze, Difference and Repetition) Hence, film’s power does not reside on a double negation (a negation of the negation, that is, a negation of monstrosity), but on positivity, by presenting the productive force monstrosity carries within it. Starting thus from th