La Haine - Film Reponse

1995
Mathieu Kassovitz

The film focuses on three yound man over the span of 24 hours. Vinz seems to be enraged almost all of the time and seemingly has one overall goal in life, to get respect, i think when he finds the gun its more or less a quick ticket to this respect. I get the impression that this guy is really messed up based on the fact that he througout the film sees a cow, also the fact that somebody can be so enraged all the time is just out of the question.

Hubert as a character really confused me, i almost felt like he should have been the enraged one rather the Vinz. He owned his own gym and it got burnt down with all the rioting, the film mentions about him working hard to get the grant for the gym and once he had it, it got burnt down. So simply because of that reason i figured he was really going to be crazy. Ironically, he was the oppisite, he seemed like the one in the group who always seemed to contain things and calm most situations.

The other guy, sa'id, i had no idea about actually. I couldn't understand excatly what his goal was in the film, other then maybe "Being" his brother. He seemed like a leader in their group but almost seemed to be undermined all the time. He simply seemed to have no authority amungst the group. I simply saw him as the "pannel" between Vinz and Hubert because he really was only shown when he was splitting them up from fighting.

The film as a whole i found to be quite entertaining, I liked the storylike in a way that you could understand where the messages were coming from. Although there were a few messages, i understood them well. There were alot of interesting camera shots as well as some ammusing sound effects but based on it low budget it was more or less expected.

The gun played a huge role in the film because it was the key to each persons goal.

I like the fact that the police weren't ever called the police in the film, they were always refered to as "Pigs"... Their corruption also made them seem like another gang on the estate, not nessasarily the helpful figures you would normally expect them to be.