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La Haine Film Analysis

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The film La Haine (1995) directed by Mathieu Kassovitzs is a French movie set in an inter-racial housing project Paris suburb. Against the backdrop of police high handedness , brutality and social inequality fuelled by hate and violence from restive youths, this drama in a new genre known as Benlieue films mirrors the social problems of migrant slum dwellers with disillussioned youths bedeviled with a bleak future and hopelessness. When considering the theoretical framework in which banlieue movie La Haine is set, it’s important to look at the French climate during 1995 as there were numerous happening which occurred that year allowing the feature itself to tap into the zeitgeist, and become extremely relevant through it’s depiction of the urban French ghetto, which is the aesthetic back drop to the film itself. As stated by Hayward in French National Cinema, “What originally appeared as the banlieue film’s strength — a genre that, through its focus on the disadvantaged urban periphery, would allow for an engagement with key socio-political debates of the period (exclusion, …show more content…

They see the French society as a failing system without much hope for their future and likened it to a guy falling from a fifty story building and reassuring himself by repeating 'so far so good, its not the fall that matters but it is the landing’. The story centers on three friends who are second generation migrants from three different racial backgrounds. They are Vinz a Jew, Said an Arab and Hubert an African black. A twenty four hours focus on the trio following the overnight opening violent riot scenes of the movie reveals the attitude that caused the riots and the hostile relationship between the youths and the

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