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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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the audience applauded

Absolutely Brilliant!

I wasn't terribly impressed by this movie, in fact at times I found it rather boring, especially the last 20 minutes which felt a bit pointless. The first 40 minutes were alright though, even though I have no idea what the point was in filming it all in black & white (didn't know it was gonna be and the poster is slightly misleading as that is indeed in colour) it's set in 1987 after all not 1957, but I'm sure many think that that was a brilliant idea.Anyway, lack of colours aside, yeah I wasn't terribly impressed with it, you don't get to know the characters much, or what made the killer actually snap (what made him hate feminists remains a mystery). I mean I understand that maybe they didn't want to take too many liberties with the script, but maybe it would have worked better as a documentary instead. And then we'd get a little more insight as well.The true story of which it's based is of course awful but that doesn't make the story anymore engaging, at least for me, certain others disagree and that's fine good for them.

I know its supposed to be a true story so the material is bounded as to what it can provoke but nonetheless this is insufficient. It feels like this is trying to give feminists a purpose instead of trying to give humanity to its characters. The shooter is just a misogynist from top to bottom and everyone else is a nice and balanced person. This just isn't good movie material. I will say I enjoyed the way this movie was filmed however, quite stylish with some nice shots in the school especially the rotation around its characters. No offense but anyone who actually thinks that its likely that somebody would tell a female engineer she should re-consider because she is a woman in AN INTERVIEW is downright delusional, especially in Canada where something like this would probably cause a media outrage, a little offhand comment is plausible but somebody expanding to that detail was just nonsense. This is nitpicking but this nonsense kind of pulled me out of the film. The dude who killed himself is only in the movie so we can see him kill himself, such teleological picking doesn't make for a good narrative, at the very least we should have seen some more of his emotional struggles. Its such a shame because this director has talent.

Denis Villeneuve's Polytechnique (2009) is as far away from his later Enemy (2013) as I could imagine. It is pure and stark, informed by its subject matter: a 1989 school shooting in Montreal, targeting women. It looks great in black and white, which creates a sombre atmosphere.This film is a testament to the importance of story and substance. The cerebral Enemy never really justified its existence to me. Also, unlike the bloated Enemy, which wore out its welcome after 15 minutes, this film is engrossing through its conservative 75 minute run time. The film is profoundly disturbing, and just plain profound. It is a sensitive film that evokes the barbarism of murder, while celebrating the value of human life.10/10

A couple of things to note: this film is described as "fictionalised", but as far as I know most of it is accurate. The massacre occurred, the film is dedicated to the fourteen women killed (who are named at the end of the movie), and the film makers have changed the names of the characters to spare the families.I avoided this until someone I trusted recommended it. I was concerned that it would be either exploitive or inept, or one of those movies that tries to explain the "phsychology" behind insane rampages (yawn) at the expense of the victims.In fact Polytechnique is a sparse simple work of great skill and humanity. There is no gratuitous violence, no gratuitous emotion, no excesses of any kind. Unsentimental, and completely moving.Afterwards I found myself looking up the chronology of the massacre and was surprised at how accurate the film really is.And to address a previous comment, Marc Lepin was not a victim of a feminist conspiracy. Marc Lepin was the victim of Marc Lepine. Too bad he took fourteen others with him.