La Haine

La Haine ("Hate") is a French black-and-white film directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, released in 1995. It is a dark urban thriller which has been called France's answer to Do the Right Thing. It explores themes of racism, violence and disaffected youth in modern suburban Paris. A riot has broken out in a slum, and been quelled by the police. The film depicts 24 hours in the lives of three teenage friends in that slum.

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Vinz, (Vincent Cassel) who is Jewish, is filled with rage. He sees himself as a thug, modeled after Robert DeNiro's "Travis Bickle" from Taxi Driver. Sa?d (Sa?d Taghmaoui), an Arab, is the trio's constantly-talking voice of reason. Hubert (Hubert Kound?), who is black, is a boxer, quietly pouring his energy into making something of himself and getting out of the ghetto. A friend of theirs, who has been beaten up in police custody, lies in a coma. Vinz finds a policeman's gun, lost in the riots in their suburb that preface the film, and vows that if their friend dies from his injuries, he will kill a policeman. This sets off a series of events that take the three down a path of destruction. Travelling in to central Paris from the suburbs where they live, the three friends find themselves viewed as social outsiders, and having missed the last train back out to the projects, they are effectively locked out, in the city. Trying, unsuccessfully, to return to their home, they are obliged to sleep in a shopping center. In the morning, they learn that their friend has died in hospital. For a moment it seems as if Vinz will go through with his boast, but the situation is defused. At the last, returning to their homes, it seems as if all is well, until Vinz is picked up at random by the police, precipitating a last minute confrontation that ends in death and disaster for the trio.

La Haine: La Haine ("Hate") is a French black-and-white film directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, released in 1995. It is a dark urban thriller which has been called France's answer to Do the Right Thing. It explores themes of racism, violence and disaffected youth in modern suburban Paris. A riot has broken out ...

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