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* TheWoobie: All three victims are very much this, much like their [[TruthInTelevision real life counterparts were]], but Tina ''especially''. She just wanted to see her little brother again!
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The film is based mainly on Homolka's version of events, and thus portrays her as a battered (which, admittedly, does have some basis in reality) and reluctant accessory to Paul's crimes, rather than as the almost entirely complicit partner that she was in real life.
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* HarsherInHindsight: One of the driving forces behind Karla's apparent silence and obedience is Paul threatening her with if it ever comes out she was guilty of Tammy's death, that her family would disown her. Adding onto Karla's real life infamous slap on the wrist treatment compared to Paul's, her family had since forgiven her in the years since the crime.
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* MoralEventHorizon: Paula's rape of Tammy.

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* MoralEventHorizon: Paula's Paul's rape of Tammy.

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* CompleteMonster: [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon Paul Bernardo]], the [[SerialRapist Scarborough Rapist]], is a sociopathic SerialKiller who assaults lone women for sheer pleasure and regularly abuses his girlfriend, the titular Karla. Having become obsessed with Karla's sister, Tammy, Bernardo drugs and rapes her, recording the whole act, which ended with Tammy overdosing. Abducting a girl named Tina, Bernardo continuously rapes her for three days until she strangles her to death and dismembers her body. Beginning to enjoy ending his victims' lives, Bernardo brings another girl to his home and tortures her, forcing her to watch her parents pleading for help on national television. After murdering her, Bernardo leaves her body to rot in the woods and laughs at the police for making wrong assumptions. A sadistic PsychopathicManchild with a fondness for dominance, Bernardo [[NeverMyFault never had the courage to assume responsibility for his actions]], and proved himself to be one of the worst criminals of his time.
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* {{Narm}}: One of the things that Paul sputters while making his suicide recording is, "I wish I had made love to you while looking you in the face."

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* {{Narm}}: One of the things that Paul sputters while making his suicide recording is, "I wish I had made love to you while looking you in the face.""

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* CompleteMonster: [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon Paul Bernardo]], the [[SerialRapist Scarborough Rapist]], is a sociopathic SerialKiller who assaults lone women for sheer pleasure and regularly abuses his girlfriend, the titular Karla. Having become obsessed with Karla's sister, Tammy, Bernardo drugs and rapes her, recording the whole act, which ended with Tammy overdosing. Abducting a girl named Tina, Bernardo continuously rapes her for three days until she strangles her to death and dismembers her body. Beginning to enjoy ending his victims' lives, Bernardo brings another girl to his home and tortures her, forcing her to watch her parents pleading for help on national television. After murdering her, Bernardo leaves her body to rot in the woods and laughs at the police for making wrong assumptions. A sadistic PsychopathicManchild with a fondness for dominance, Bernardo [[NeverMyFault never had the courage to assume responsibility for his actions]], and proved himself to be one of the worst criminals of his time.

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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation:
** The film is based mainly on Homolka's version of events, and thus portrays her as a battered (which, admittedly, does have some basis in reality) and reluctant accessory to Paul's crimes, rather than as the almost entirely complicit partner that she was in real life.
** A wholly fictional sequence has Paul spiral into despair after Karla leaves him, and he eventually becomes such a wreck that he attempts to kill himself while recording a rambling, tear-filled suicide note about how sorry he is and about how much he misses her (of course, all of that remorse immediately evaporates when Karla sics the law on him, at which point Paul tries to pin everything on her, claiming that she encouraged him to rape and that she was the one who really murdered Tammy and the two schoolgirls).

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AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The film is based mainly on Homolka's version of events, and thus portrays her as a battered (which, admittedly, does have some basis in reality) and reluctant accessory to Paul's crimes, rather than as the almost entirely complicit partner that she was in real life.
** A wholly fictional sequence has Paul spiral into despair after Karla leaves him, and he eventually becomes such a wreck that he attempts to kill himself while recording a rambling, tear-filled suicide note about how sorry he is and about how much he misses her (of course, all of that remorse immediately evaporates when Karla sics the law on him, at which point Paul tries to pin everything on her, claiming that she encouraged him to rape and that she was the one who really murdered Tammy and the two schoolgirls).
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* {{Narm}}: One of the things that Paul sputters while making the aforementioned suicide recording is, "I wish I had made love to you while looking you in the face."

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* {{Narm}}: One of the things that Paul sputters while making the aforementioned his suicide recording is, "I wish I had made love to you while looking you in the face."

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* MoralEventHorizon : Paula's rape of Tammy.

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* MoralEventHorizon : AlternateCharacterInterpretation:
** The film is based mainly on Homolka's version of events, and thus portrays her as a battered (which, admittedly, does have some basis in reality) and reluctant accessory to Paul's crimes, rather than as the almost entirely complicit partner that she was in real life.
** A wholly fictional sequence has Paul spiral into despair after Karla leaves him, and he eventually becomes such a wreck that he attempts to kill himself while recording a rambling, tear-filled suicide note about how sorry he is and about how much he misses her (of course, all of that remorse immediately evaporates when Karla sics the law on him, at which point Paul tries to pin everything on her, claiming that she encouraged him to rape and that she was the one who really murdered Tammy and the two schoolgirls).
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Paula's rape of Tammy.Tammy.
* {{Narm}}: One of the things that Paul sputters while making the aforementioned suicide recording is, "I wish I had made love to you while looking you in the face."
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* MoralEventHorizon : Paula's rape of Tammy.

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