In 1989, a tragedy occurred that would later be known as the National Day of Remembrance of the Montreal Massacre. Marc Lépine, the shooter, cost the lives of numerous victims as well as his own, at the Polytechnique school in Montreal. Due to his hatred of feminism, he felt compelled to kill fourteen of the female engineering students as well as any other students or professors who got in his way. Through the powerful film of “Polytechnique” and the credible facts of “The Seven Minutes of the Life of Marc Lépine”, we could not help but see in Lépine a victim whose fate was tempted from his birth. Through the film's stimulating images and Petrowski's moving but credible writing, Marc Lépine is presented as a victim of the massacre in the same way as the 14 other women victims of this horrible historical event. In the article “The Seven Minute Life of Marc Lépine”, we see Lépine as a victim. We can't help but sympathize with him because of the struggles he endured throughout his youth. He was in and out of the hospital for therapy with his mother and sister after being repeatedly beaten by their father for years. The film “Polytechnique” depicts his life during the introduction. We get a glimpse into his life. The audience sees that Lépine is solitary, calm and has a lot of repressed anger, especially towards feminists. In his suicide note, he expresses the reasons why he hates feminists and writes how feminists ruined his life. This letter explains what turned his anger and hatred into murder. In the past, there were many prejudices against women and their lack of abilities compared to men. Although the male perspective has changed over the past few centuries, many feminists still fight for ...... middle of paper ...... "a pathological case" (Petrowski 350) and a "case among d 'others". genre” (Petrowski 350), how can we explain the other shootings and massacres of thousands of innocent people? Lépine was a victim of neglect from the community in which he grew up and neglect from the parents who raised him. May the lives of the fourteen women motivated by their career remain forever engraved in the memories, but also that of Marc Lépine, who represents many other victims of abused and neglected children. With the sobering images of “Polytechnique” and the factual and realistic article of “The Seven Minutes of the Life of Marc Lépine,” it is evident that Lépine is not only an aggressor, but also a victim, who died with the other women in the engineering class. Lépine had suffered well before December 6. As Petrowski described it, Marc Lépine was a time bomb just waiting to explode..