Paul Bernardo was an absolute monster, but so was his wife, Karla Homolka. If you aren't familiar with the case, as I wasn't, there is a ton of information online. The couple's victims were young girls, raped and videotaped, and the ensuing torture and murder seemed to escalate. Homolka took part in all of it, even bringing a 15 year girl home as a "gift" for her husband and flagging down girls to their car to be kidnapped.
The movie's depiction of Karla is ridiculous. She's portrayed as helplessly naive, girlish, cutsey, stupid, hopelessly in love, and innocently involved in sadism. Over and over, the movie plays out it's moronic pattern, nonsensically depicting weak protests as if to exonerate her, but actually unable to escape her real participation in sick, sadistic child murders. Her furrowed brows of concern and averted glances while participating in rape, torture, and murder do nothing to shield her. In one idiotic scene, Karla gives the poison to the girl herself and then, afterwards, shudders and argues over what she's done. In another, she takes a shower to seemingly cleanse herself from the sin of keeping a Catholic school girl in a closet. Absolutely not - this woman was a serial rapist and killer, and the portrayal doesn't even seem to make sense to the actress playing her. The thing is, she actually did all these horrible things, and, sheepish glances or arguments or not, sheepish glances and arguments still don't make this woman innocent.
The movie's depiction of Karla is ridiculous. She's portrayed as helplessly naive, girlish, cutsey, stupid, hopelessly in love, and innocently involved in sadism. Over and over, the movie plays out it's moronic pattern, nonsensically depicting weak protests as if to exonerate her, but actually unable to escape her real participation in sick, sadistic child murders. Her furrowed brows of concern and averted glances while participating in rape, torture, and murder do nothing to shield her. In one idiotic scene, Karla gives the poison to the girl herself and then, afterwards, shudders and argues over what she's done. In another, she takes a shower to seemingly cleanse herself from the sin of keeping a Catholic school girl in a closet. Absolutely not - this woman was a serial rapist and killer, and the portrayal doesn't even seem to make sense to the actress playing her. The thing is, she actually did all these horrible things, and, sheepish glances or arguments or not, sheepish glances and arguments still don't make this woman innocent.