Karla ...The movie

[goatgirl]

Hi all....

I was wondering if anyone has seen the movie yet &
what you thought about it ?

I watched it the other day :( I found it very disturbing!


GoatGirl

[2L8 4A D8]

Originally posted by goatgirl
Hi all....

I was wondering if anyone has seen the movie yet &
what you thought about it ?

I watched it the other day :( I found it very disturbing!

GoatGirl

Were you expecting anything else GG?

:seeya:

[denisevans2003]

Where did you see it i was told it wasn't coming out until the fall.

[MrToadsWildRide]

Someone my hubby works with downloaded it from the net.I haven't seen it yet.

[dragonlady]

I own a video shop in Australia & the DVD was released for hire here last month.

As we are usually many months behind the US (& Canada) with the releases here, I would have guessed that the Karla movie has been legally available for ages.

As a movie, I found it well made, well acted & interesting. As a factual record of what happened, mmm, no, IMO.

Then again, although the movie does present Karla as a very much abused victim, it does definately present her detachment, her lack of any remorse or empathy & I do think that that is how she really is.

[Sasha1122]

I don't understand why Canadians are so against this movie. It does not show Karla or Paul in a positive light, and it pretty much leaves it open to one's own interpretation whether Karla was the instigator or the victim. True crime has always been fascinating on the big (or small) screen. I would like to know what is so different about these victims that a movie about their murders sets so many people's teeth on edge. Every murder is a tragedy, and every family is changed forever by losing someone they love. This is a message board about a couple of sex killers. Everyone on here is interested, whether they are repelled or just wanting to know what made these two people do the things they did. I don't understand why these victims are any different from any others, and why the victims family lawyer is always right trying to stop articles from being published, books from being published, movies from being made. Their lives are forever changed, and their children will always be known as Paul and Karla's victims.

[BevAnn]

Originally posted by Sasha1122
I don't understand why Canadians are so against this movie. It does not show Karla or Paul in a positive light, and it pretty much leaves it open to one's own interpretation whether Karla was the instigator or the victim. True crime has always been fascinating on the big (or small) screen. I would like to know what is so different about these victims that a movie about their murders sets so many people's teeth on edge. Every murder is a tragedy, and every family is changed forever by losing someone they love. This is a message board about a couple of sex killers. Everyone on here is interested, whether they are repelled or just wanting to know what made these two people do the things they did. I don't understand why these victims are any different from any others, and why the victims family lawyer is always right trying to stop articles from being published, books from being published, movies from being made. Their lives are forever changed, and their children will always be known as Paul and Karla's victims.

Sasha - :seeya: hi from fort smith!!

I know for ME, it was the fact that one was her SISTER that just made this case so unreal. You're OWN family member - I just can't imagine!

And I just read on another post - someone asked just what her relationship WAS with her family now - a question I had also. And someone answered she was on good terms with her mother and sister, and so-so with her dad. WTH? I am amazed at that. I mean, I know a mom is a mom - but geez...not sure how close I'd still be with my son, if he had sexually abused and murdered my other son! :shrug:

[Sasha1122]

As the mother of two, I also don't know how I would react if one of my children killed the other. I guess one way a parent would look at it is that they lost one child and anything would be better than losing another. Plus, since her family knew Paul and saw firsthand what Karla looked like after a beating...it was probably easy to put the majority of the blame on him. Parents tend to lay less blame on their own child and more on the other person. There are so many "Ifs" in this case. IF only the police had run the DNA Paul submitted before ANYONE was murdered.....IF only Leslie Mahaffey's mother had not locked her out of the house.....IF only Karla had told her parents what really happened the night her younger sister died......

Just a lot of tragic "Ifs". I'm not saying anyone is responsible but Karla and Paul, because they are. I just don't understand the objection to the movie. Granted, this may not be "In Cold Blood", but if it stops one person from being murdered or becoming a murderer.....isn't it worth it?

[Canadian]

"I don't understand why Canadians are so against this movie."

"I don't understand why these victims are any different from any others, and why the victims family lawyer is always right trying to stop articles from being published, books from being published, movies from being made. Their lives are forever changed, and their children will always be known as Paul and Karla's victims."


Sasha, re-read your posts and you could answer your own question.

What I am about to type is not anti-American

Canadians are against the movie because Canadians do not like to sensationalize, unlike the Americans who produce movies about any and all tragedies. Canadians place their focus on the victims, not the monsters.

Attempts are made to prevent articles, books from being publish and movies from being made because Canadians prefer to have the victims' lives be their legacy, not their deaths like the Americans prefer.

The victims' families and other Canadians want the victims to be remembered as they were in life, not as they died.

[dmnckray]

I have seen the movie, and am looking forward to seeing it again. It's just freaky... It's supposed to be back in theatres soon, but I'm not sure when. Anyone know anything about the release?

[MrToadsWildRide]

I finally have the movie.It makes her look more like a lovesick victim of Paul's more than anything.They do not mention Kristen,or Leslie's names in the movie..they use aliases(sp).

It was one sided to me.Karla the victim.



:rolleyes:

[hockeymomof5]

Originally posted by MrToadsWildRide
I finally have the movie.It makes her look more like a lovesick victim of Paul's more than anything.They do not mention Kristen,or Leslie's names in the movie..they use aliases(sp).

It was one sided to me.Karla the victim.



:rolleyes:

I haven't seen it nor will I. My son and his girlfriend saw it and they said the same thing.

[dmnckray]

O.K., O.K., It seems like people out there are getting the movie, and I still can't find it! I know it's to be released soon, but still no word. I think that it's an important movie to be seen. I gained much more interest in the case after seeing it, and I think people should see it and understand that these types of people are anywhere. I don't think it portrayed Karla as the victim at all, but I do wonder why she is out of prison.

[denisevans2003]

Does anyone know where in California this so called movie can be seen? I mean do you think there would be a commercial for that?
:confused:

[lucky13]

What type of movie?? Movie theater? Straight to DVD? Made for t.v.?? I've never heard of it. I did see the story on court tv years ago though.
Karla is an evil MONSTER IMO, not a victim at all.

[jamila]

I'm from not that far from the Canadian border, and I honestly don't want to see this movie. Normally, I like true crime movies, but this one I don't want to bother myself with. The idea of a woman who assisted in rapes and murders & conned the court into thinking she was a battered woman makes me ill. I can't even imagine anyone seriously wanting to break into acting wanting this part.

[Canadian Bum]

Originally posted by jamila
I'm from not that far from the Canadian border, and I honestly don't want to see this movie. Normally, I like true crime movies, but this one I don't want to bother myself with. The idea of a woman who assisted in rapes and murders & conned the court into thinking she was a battered woman makes me ill. I can't even imagine anyone seriously wanting to break into acting wanting this part. I believe a very limited number of theatres carried the movie. I remember seeing the test audience in Toronto ( on tv) after a private screening, many were crying or visably upset. I felt no need to go. The part of Karla, is played by Laura Prepon, from That 70 s Show.

[2L8 4A D8]

Originally posted by jamila
I'm from not that far from the Canadian border, and I honestly don't want to see this movie. Normally, I like true crime movies, but this one I don't want to bother myself with. The idea of a woman who assisted in rapes and murders & conned the court into thinking she was a battered woman makes me ill. I can't even imagine anyone seriously wanting to break into acting wanting this part.
Excellent post! It's difficult enough to try and get past the torture, rape and murder of Leslie and Kristen, but that she also assisted Paul in the rape and murder of her baby sister Tammy is just mind boggling to me. However, her Mother and middle Sister don't seem to have a problem with any of it though. That says a lot to me!

Karla is one sick and perverted biotch as far as I am concerned!

JMO and MOO!!

:rose: God Bless Tammy!
:rose: God Bless Leslie!
:rose: God Bless Kristen!