Excusing the men who ran away
By Mark Steyn - Thursday, March 5, 2009 - 224 Comments
The new film ‘Polytechnique’ sidesteps the old norm of ‘women and children first’
On the annual commemoration of the “Montreal Massacre,” the Quebec broadcaster Marie-France Bazzo remarked how strange it was that, after all these years, nobody had made a work of art about what happened that day at the École Polytechnique.
I wonder, in the two decades since Dec. 6, 1989, how many novelists, playwrights, film directors have tried, and found themselves stumped at the first question: what is this story about?
