Halle Berry In ‘Monster’s Ball’

Halle Berry has been named “Sexiest Woman Alive,” was a Bond girl, and even the runner-up of Miss USA. Yet in Monster’s Ball, she’s supposed to be an ordinary struggling waitress. The movie even inspired a famous think piece entitled “When Beauty Gets in The Way.” The author points to several scenes in which her character improbably passes under the radar, such as when her car breaks down on the side of a road and no one stops to help her. Her beauty, the author argues, “nearly subverts the movie.”