![]() However, as I was a teenage girl living in Quebec at the time, I wanted much more from this film, maybe unfairly. I respect Denis Villeneuve’s choices in making this film. It is beautifully executed and shows the courage the women displayed in an unimaginable situation. You really live through the event nearly in real-time. I had not seen this movie since it came out, and I was surprised at the level of emotions it brought up. These women were “la crème de la crème” and would have significantly contributed to society. I was unable to find the percentage of women attending Polytechnique in 1989. Many scenes in the cafeteria or halls show that the student body was made up mostly of young men. The perception is that her studies are just something to do while waiting to get married. We’re looking for candidates who won’t give up on us along the way…” Valerie, played by Karine Vanasse, who went onto play in many of Quebec’s major productions, is a hard-working student at the top of her class. For all the feminism that motivated the shootings, the movie depicts open sexism during an internship interview: “A girl in mechanics? Usually, girls prefer civil engineering. This could be any of us, preparing for the day, not realizing that someone has decided to place their pain ahead of your life. They want to keep the advantages of women (e.g., cheaper insurance, extended maternity leave preceded by preventive withdrawal, etc.) while taking over those of men.” Īs you see the women studying, getting dressed for a job interview, and going to class, you feel a great sadness as it is so easy to relate. Being rather passéist (with the exception of science) by nature, feminists have always had the power to make me angry. For why persevere to exist if it is only to please the government. “ Even if the epithet “Crazy Shooter” will be attributed to me in the media, I consider myself as a rational scholar that only the coming of the Grim Reaper brought me to make extreme gestures. Lépine, played by Maxim Gaudette (credited as The Killer and this is how I will refer to him for the remainder of this review) is shown preparing himself on the morning of the massacre to the voice over of his actual suicide letter which was found in his pocket after the massacre. Shot in black in white, it feels cold and sometimes claustrophobic. Jean-Francois’ character is based on the real-life student Sarto Blais who witnessed the massacre firsthand and later killed himself, followed by his parents a year later. Polytechnique focuses on the women’s experience, sometimes from their perspective, sometimes from a male student, Jean-Francois (Sebastien Huberdeau). He then separated the nine women from the fifty or so men present and ordered the men, including the professor, to leave. ![]() Believing it to be a joke, no one moves until Lépine fires a shot at the ceiling. He ordered the men and women to split into two separate groups on either side of the room. After approaching the student who was making a presentation, he asked everyone to stop what they were doing. On December 6, 1989, Marc Lépine walked into a classroom at the prestigious École Polytechnique engineering school in Montréal with a Ruger mini-14 rifle and a knife. ![]() ![]() The film was shot simultaneously in both French and English. From all accounts, the events are accurate in their chronology and depictions. Out of respect for the victims and their families, all the characters are fictional. This film is inspired by the survivors’ testimonies of the tragedy that took place on December 6, 1989. ![]()
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