polytechnique

Director: denis villeneuve

Actor: maxim gaudette,sébastien huberdeau,karine vanasse,martin watier

Data Published: Fri Feb 06 2009

Genres: Crime,Drama,History

Key Words: misogynist,gunman,in medias res,montreal quebec,insanity

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194238/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytechnique_(film)

Description: Polytechnique is a movie starring Maxim Gaudette, Sébastien Huberdeau, and Karine Vanasse. A dramatization of the 1989 Montréal Massacre, during which several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist.

Plot: During a class at Polytechnique Montreal an engineering school, a young man enters the classroom with a rifle. He orders the men to leave and the women to stay. They comply after he shoots into the ceiling to show that he is serious. He tells the women that he hates feminists. Although the women deny being feminists, he shoots at them, killing some and wounding others. He then moves through corridors, the cafeteria, and another classroom, specifically targeting women. Once finished, he shoots himself with his own weapon. One of the male students is Jean-François, who was ordered to leave the classroom. He does not merely flee, as he returns to try to stop the killer and/or help the victims. Valérie and Stéphanie, two surviving women, play dead thinking the killer has returned, and Stéphanie later dies of her injuries. Some time after the massacre, Jean-François, feeling guilty for complying with the order to leave the classroom and abandoning the women, commits suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. Valérie, wearing the Iron Ring, the professional ring of Canadian engineers, learns she is pregnant, planning to tell a potential son to be loving or a potential daughter that the world belongs to her.