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Notes on La Haine / Hate Director: Mathieu Kassovitz (1995)

Abdel, the inhabitant of a poor suburb of Paris (la banlieue), has been injured by a police inspector during an interrogation. While he is in the hospital, during violent riots in his neighborhood, a policeman loses his gun. One of Abdel's friends, Vinz, finds it, and decides to use it to gain more respect from his neighborhood, but more especially, from the police. Vinz swears that if Abdel dies, he will shoot a policeman. Since Vinz and his two friends, Saïd and Hubert, are unemployed and have nothing to do, they talk and argue a lot about the gun and the police. Vinz is Jewish, Saïd is the son of an Algerian immigrant, and Hubert is black. The film follows them, interacting with their friends and family, and trying to kill time, until the real action begins. Characters and cast Vincent Cassel Hubert Koundé

Vinz Hubert

Saïd Taghmaoui

Saïd

Abdel Ahmed Ghili

Abdel

Guideline questions for La Haine: 1. The three friends have a different take on life. Who is the most clearheaded? The angriest? The most cheerful? How does that influence their friendship?  They were obnoxious but seeing their lives can show why they acted the way they did, their backgrounds shaped how they are, their everyday life is so different because they grew up in in the poor Paris suburbs. They are a product of their environment.  Vinz- the angriest can’t get through to him without aggression. He’s filled with anger and wants to gain respect by the neighborhood and from the police by promising that he will kill a cop if abdel dies.  Said-he doesn’t take sides when vinz and Hubert fight, he just wants to hang out with his friends and enjoy.  Hubert-most clear headed, he wants to get out of the poor Paris suburbs. He’s the wisest out of the 3, he doesn’t like the life he’s living and his surroundings. He wants to leave the projects but doesn’t know how too. 2. How is the police represented in the movie?  At this time in Paris, the cops brutally abused abdel and ended up hospitalizing him and putting him in a coma. Vinz is angered by this and wants to get revenge and kill a cop if abdel ends up dying due to police brutality. There’s a very negative look to the police as if they are out to get you. 3. Does the formal aspect of the movie (black and white, stylized picture) hinder the message?  The movie is fictional, the black and white is used to make the movie look older. The black and white got rid of most of the visuals in the background so we focused more on the characters. 4. How is life in the cité (the projects)? How do people spend their time, and where?  Schools were burned down and vinz, said, and Hubert were unemployed so they just wandered the city aimlessly and tried to keep themselves entertained by getting in trouble and smoking pot. 5. Each young man represents an ethnic group: what does this "black-blancbeur" trio say about racism in the cité and outside of it?  Racism didn’t play a big role in this movie, they are all friends and get along somewhat well. 6. How is the story about a man falling from a skyscraper, with its tagline (so far, so good... The important thing is not the fall, but the landing) played out in the movie?  7. Is this movie realistic?  8. How is life represented?  Poorer quality in the project area and the nicer area is where the cops are, the art show was a foreign concept, they don’t go to school, because of the riot, vinz’s sisters school burned down from the riot, a lot of free time, people don’t do much...