Quote:
"In spite of the preface of the film [Mourir à tue-tête], where men of all classes are singled out, her decision to use the stereotypically violent worker as the actual rapist could be seen as letting middle- and upper-class men off the hook. Male spectators can distance themselves from the ugly proletarian rapist and hide behind the notion that only 'they'—that is, the lower classes—could do something that brutal; 'we' upper-class gentlemen would never mistreat a woman."
-- André Loiselle

Source:
Loiselle, André. "Look like a Worker and Act like a Worker: Stereotypical Representations of the Working Class in Quebec Fiction Feature Films." In Working On Screen: Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema, edited by Malek Khouri and Darrell Varga. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. (p. 225)