I guess I'll give this 3 stars -- though it's not a "good" movie -- in fact, even given the already-disturbing subject matter, something about this is quite sick. There seems to be a kind of relish with which the director portrays, painfully and in detail, the sadistic acts of the movie's 2 main characters. The "heroine," Karla, portrays herself as a victim to her megalomaniacal husband, the bona fide sexist (to say the least), sadist, murderist, and rapist Paul Barnardo, a cigarette smuggler from Canada. To hear her tell it, he just kind of went around doing vile, heinous acts, and she just sort of followed him, whimpering and cowering in terror, picking up his pieces, and video taping it all, afraid for her life, a victim of domestic abuse. I don't buy that. I mean, I buy that he beat her; but I don't buy that she was quite as passive and helpless and as she presents. She killed her own sister to fulfill her husband's (and her own?) sexual fantasy. And tapes it.
oliverrsposted 281 days ago
