La Bête lumineuse

This National Film Board documentary focuses on a group of men as they depart for a weekend hunting trip in rural Québec. Among them is an earnest, philosophical teacher/poet who is so out of place in this macho roundelay of drinking, swearing and shooting he soon becomes an even more pathetic victim of hormonal persecution than the moose the men have come to kill. By film’s end, he will be subjected to forms of systematic humiliation that, ugly as they are, speak volumes about the conforming agenda that motivates so much ritualized male bonding.