Interspersed amongst his screenplay are journal entries, where Steve searches within his soul to try to learn who he is. His interaction with his brother, his conversations with others in the neighborhood, including King. There's a cast of characters that includes Steve's lawyer, a woman named O'Brien Steve's friend, also up for murder, James King King's lawyer, Asa Briggs the prosecutor, Petrocelli Steve's mother and father and brother Steve's film teacher, Mr. There are voice overs, close-ups, medium shots, long shots, and so on. Monster is written from the perspective of Steve Harmon, who is writing it in the form of a movie script.
The goal is to convince the jury that Steve is a monster. The prosecution knows this and uses it to their advantage. Simply being black makes this an uphill battle for Steve, as news footage showing pictures and videos of young black men committing murder dominates the media and colors peoples' views of the black population. For a young black teenager named Steve Harmon, who has been accused as being an accomplice to a murder, this becomes a scary reality as he realizes his fate lies in the hands of a jury of viewers who are trying to decide what kind of person he is and whether he is the kind of person capable of being part of a murder. We judge others based on initial impressions and appearances. Watching the life of another human being is like watching a film. If you make your film predictable, they'll make up their minds about it long before it's over." "When you make a film, you leave an impression on the viewers, who serve as a kind of jury for your film.
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