I don't know what it is about this documentary but it almost seems like they were downplaying the extreme violence of Paul Bernardo's behavior. They do mention early on that his rapes of young girls on the streets of Toronto at night went unnoticed for years, likely due to his clean cut appearance, boyish baby face, and charmingly psychopathic personality. They also indicate that he would press their faces or body parts into the dirt to humiliate them, insert objects other than his own genitals or fingers into the victims, and that he broke one girl's arm by stepping on it. Yes, it's all very shocking.
But aside from that litany of terror, there's SO MUCH EMPHASIS of repetitively showing video clips of how cute and normal the couple seemed to other people for about six years prior to their convictions. I thought that part was way overdone. Like, yeah, we can see that they were reasonably cute people who came across as basics. We don't have to told over and over again how innocent they both seem.
In fact, the documentary doesn't delve at all into all of Paul's criminal activity (including losing his job as an accountant and turning to smuggling before his marriage to Karla) and it's SO obvious that Karla is guilty from how happy and nonchalant she seems at their wedding just two weeks after raping and murdering an underaged girl together.
If anything, I feel the directors downplayed Paul to throw more suspicion on to Karla. Like okay okay we get it, Karla was complicit in her own way, but Paul Bernardo is a straight up psychopath and terms like "child pornography" and "sodomy" should have been used much more frequently during multiple episodes of the documentary to hit home at how very deeply sick and disturbing these serial killings actually are.
But aside from that litany of terror, there's SO MUCH EMPHASIS of repetitively showing video clips of how cute and normal the couple seemed to other people for about six years prior to their convictions. I thought that part was way overdone. Like, yeah, we can see that they were reasonably cute people who came across as basics. We don't have to told over and over again how innocent they both seem.
In fact, the documentary doesn't delve at all into all of Paul's criminal activity (including losing his job as an accountant and turning to smuggling before his marriage to Karla) and it's SO obvious that Karla is guilty from how happy and nonchalant she seems at their wedding just two weeks after raping and murdering an underaged girl together.
If anything, I feel the directors downplayed Paul to throw more suspicion on to Karla. Like okay okay we get it, Karla was complicit in her own way, but Paul Bernardo is a straight up psychopath and terms like "child pornography" and "sodomy" should have been used much more frequently during multiple episodes of the documentary to hit home at how very deeply sick and disturbing these serial killings actually are.
