Movie:
Reality:
Yep, it’s uncanny!
Somebody put this article in a time capsule for posterity — this precious example of brainless, default progressive “thinking” must be preserved:
That includes male students, embodied by actor Sebastien Huberdeau’s character who is consumed by guilt because he couldn’t do more to stop the carnage or save one wounded woman he finds.
“He represents the feeling of helplessness that some people, some men, felt, who felt they didn’t do enough,” said the actor. “He’s also a victim.”
“We cannot judge them for what they have done because they didn’t know what was going on,” Vanasse said. “They didn’t even know that the killer was only trying to kill the women.
Yeah, because gender is just a social construct! When Lepine separated the “men” from the “women,” that wasn’t anybody’s first, like, clue or anything…
In an usual twist, the film is in black and white, which adds to its period look. It also enabled filmmakers to do scenes that Villeneuve said would have been “unbearable” in colour.
“Black and white gives you a poetic distance with reality,” Villeneuve explained. “I wanted the audience to feel compasion, to feel the emotions that the characters are going through, not be repulsed by the violence and the blood.”
Yeah, the 80s were totally in black and white. Remember that? It made laundry so much easier…
Sit back and bask in the sheer multi-layered asininity, crumble into a despairing lump when it hits you that this young woman will likely never meet anyone who challenges her shallow assumptions and cliches…
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