He was really awesome in the role. Yes the movie was disturbing and the story behind the movie was as well. But I did like the movie and both him and Laura did a good job acting in it. Karla was apart of most of the crimes but also was a victim of Paul's brutal abuse. Paul Misha Collins he was more involved into the crime but Karla Laura Prepon was an accessory to the murders.
Misha is a great actor! Let me just say, it was one of the most disturbing films I have ever seen. I am a film student and have been trained to evaluate not just how I felt about a movie but to look past it to determine if something is good. I wish I had not seen this movie. It is deeply troubling. Misha played the role well but it was incredibly hard for him to actually find distinctions between him and his character until after the filming was actually finished.
Misha actually doesn't want people to watch this film. He was disturbed by what it brought out in him and feared that he was offending the families of the victims of Paul Bernardo.
Also, the director was totally unhinged during the filming and actually found some of the rape and torture scenes to be "hot. I even had to fast forward through almost all of the rape and torture scenes because of how disturbing the are. Misha Collins Related Clubs. Cookies help us bring you Fanpop. By using Fanpop, you agree to our use of cookies. Learn More Got It! I'm out of it. A responsible, professional actor doesn't take it home with them. I made every effort to leave it on the set, but I have to say some of it followed me home.
And it took weeks to shake it after we stopped shooting. Which I think made the horror of Adolf Hitler that much more horrific.
Because if you can begin to empathize with Adolf Hitler in some way, I think it makes his story much more frightening. Many viewers hate this movie because they feel like it's an attempt to capitalize on human suffering. But many crime films are based on true-life murders and other non-fiction tragedies. The appropriate audience for this film would be viewers who are interested in true crime, and who can look dispassionately on the people involved, including villains.
I'm glad I saw "Karla" because it is based on a real-life case, but I don't think I want to watch it again. How many times have you watched a crime film that has a ludicrous plot, or one that is too outrageous to entertain? If you haven't heard of her, Karla Homolka is Canada's most hated woman, and with good reason, for what kind of woman marries a serial rapist, knowingly, after having facilitated his drug-assisted rape of her own sister, who dies as a result?
But it gets worse, after that, Homolka helped Bernardo continue his reign of depravity. As its title suggests, this film is related from her viewpoint, so sees her minimising her role as far as possible, something she could not extend to Tammy's death because of the video evidence.
The names of the other two murder victims have been changed, and obviously due to the usual constraints, a lot has been omitted, but this is a brave film. While it is true that the psychopathic Bernardo beat her severely, only a total douchebag would attempt to portray Homolka as a victim. That or the Attorney General of Ontario, but nuff said. The content of this film may disgust you, but don't blame the cast or the people behind it, they have done their craft proud.
Unfortunately, Paul is mentally unstable, and finds pleasure in raping and sexually abusing women - something Karla wasn't aware of in the beginning. It begins on Christmas Eve when Karla and Paul end up accidentally killing Karla's younger sister while trying to make a sex video.
While she is disturbed by the entire thing, she is still desperate for love which she believes she has truly found , so Karla goes along with her husband's insatiable hunger for sexual violence and power, and takes part in it as well, as he kidnaps young women, makes sex tapes with them, tortures them, and ultimately murders them.
Based on the real-life murders that occurred back in the early '90s, I found this true-crime flick a fairly disturbing film. I had read a little about the real crimes that happened before, finding that Homolka and Bernardo have been labeled Canada's most notorious murderers. While I know the basic details of the case, I'm still not all too familiar with the real Karla's involvement in the murders.
In the film she is depicted as an abused woman, weakened by her husband's manipulative and violent personality. In fear of him, she does as he says, even if that means participating in horrific acts. The main reason she is seen as guilty in the murders is because of her "lack of empathy for the victims", and this is clearly shown throughout the film. The problem that I had here though is that I was confused as to how this film was trying to portray her - was it attempting to tell us that Karla was simply an abused, beaten-down person who was coaxed into these crimes?
Or was she mentally unstable as well, and participated in the crimes by her own free will? To me it appeared the film was sympathetic towards her, but that's how I interpreted it. Whatever the real events may have consisted of, the storyline revolving around her character is fairly well constructed, whether it is fictionalized in the real Karla's favor or not.
Good writing is present, and the story is told from Karla's point of view as she retells the events to a parole officer in hopes of making her way out of prison into the real world.
The acting in the film was surprisingly good. Laura Prepon, who gained her fame playing the friendly red-headed girl-next-door in the television sitcom "That '70s Show", makes a large departure from her comedy roots, in a powerhouse performance as an extremely dark, and obscure character. She plays the character surprisingly well, and anyone who is immune to seeing her as the spunky, good-hearted Donna on "That '70s Show" will be quite surprised with this disturbing performance she delivers.
The audience can sympathize with her to a certain extent which is sometimes almost fully. Again, I am not sure if the real Karla was as innocent as the film portrays her. In the film however, she seems relatively normal, and clearly not as mad as her husband. Her neglect for human life though and her passive following of her husband is a sure sign of mental illness. Misha Collins is menacing as well as her abusive and murderous husband - he's a scary guy.
The violence in the film is mostly implicated and not shown, but it's just as equally effective - the abuse and torture endured by these innocent girls is awful, and stomach churning when projected on screen.
I can't imagine what the real victims endured, and in respect I'd like to send out my condolences to the families of the real victims. Overall, "Karla" is a disturbing film. Regardless of the real Karla Homolka's innocence or guilt in the actual crimes, this is still a really good crime film that holds itself up well. If you go into see this movie, expect a disturbing and uneasy experience. The story is fairly well told even if the real facts may be distorted or changed for storytelling purposes , and it is an interesting film to watch, plus there are really good performances to be found.
One thing I can say for sure is that it is much better than most of the straight-to-video true crime junk that you can find at your video store. MarieGabrielle 17 July Disorder is accurately diagnosed by her psychiatrist,well-portrayed by veteran actor Patrick Bauchau. Laura Prepon is believable and cold as Karla Homolka, who was jailed for killing her sister and conspiring with sexual sadist and psychopath Paul Bernardo.
He is odiously portrayed by Misha Collins. The story itself is horrific,and I believe the writer accurately portrayed Karla as borderline psychotic,yet she has a surface normalcy to society,much the same as Ted Bundy and other psychopaths. She is not a sympathetic character, and Prepon delivers a believable performance. Overall an interesting study,Misha Collins as Bernard is particularly devoid of conscience and detestable,and it would be impossible to explain why any woman would stay with him for love, unless she was indeed psychotic.
Sherazade 29 June What was most shocking to me was the fact that Karla Prepon helped with the violation and murder of her own little sister and then married the guy she claimed to be the mastermind behind it all. To me, that's where it all began. She claimed that he was raping girls way before he met her but for the viewer, what happened with the little sister and Paul's obsession with her the little sister was where it all began. I have not read the book or followed any of the material from the real-life tragedy from which the film is inspired but the facts that were brought forward in this film are just really really beyond my jurisdiction.
This was truly a startling film. Girl falls in love with boy, discovers he's a rapist, marries him and colludes in his continued depravity, then gets caught.
Earnest tale told in plain flashback, with no insight on the characters and no interest in the nature of truth and little by way of visceral horror. The killing scenes are tame, giving no sense of the rush of adrenalin in perpetrators or victims, or the ugliness and finality of violent death. So overall it feels like an old-fashioned made for TV movie. You get to the postscript and find an entirely different character from the one portrayed by the lead actress, and it's a real head scratcher to think they didn't use that angle to mess things up and break from the linear story telling.
Performances are fine. Lighting is mostly bright, so no great moodiness. Music did its job. Overall: Simple tale of depravity that didn't feel depraved.
Seems there was controversy in Canada over this, and several of the actors repudiated the film, with lurid tales of misconduct on the set. Its real weakness is that it pulls its punches and fails to be nasty enough.
Paul Bernardo is a monster. There is no other way to look at it. He is sadistic, inhumane, despicable, demented and someone who should be tortured every day of his life for what he did to his victims, the ones we know about and the ones we don't.
His sidekick Karla Holmolka, is just as evil. According to her, she was a willing participant in the crimes, but did not kill anyone.
That doesn't make her much better of a person, but one can look at her circumstance and at least say that she wasn't quite as cold as he was.
For those who don't know, Paul Bernardo and Karla Holmolka were two beautiful, young Canadians from the Niagara Falls area who were convicted of raping, torturing and dismembering two of their three victims in the early 90's. Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy are the two young high school girls that they kidnapped and dehumanized and then Tammy Holmolka was Karla's little sister who was drugged and then raped and then died of an apparent overdose.
This story gripped Ontario and the rest of Canada for months in the early part of the 's. Paul Bernardo also became known as the Scarborough rapist and was convicted of some of those crimes as well.
Holmolka finally turned on Bernardo when he beat her one too many times and she cut herself a nice little deal to serve only twelve years for her part of the crime. Here in Canada, this film has been protested and considered blasphemous towards the memories of French and Mahaffy.
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