Instead of a discussion on values, it turned out to be more like an inquisition with the inexperienced and clearly nervous moderator Souhayla Ou-Oumar as both judge and executioner. These banlieues can be literally translated as ‘suburbs’, a translation which is somewhat misleading. ... Racism as in the UK has been seen to be a particular problem in the police force. Police brutality exists and institutional racism is real. Vinz discovers a policeman’s revolver dropped in the midst of the action and vows to use it to kill a cop; his personal revenge mission tells the story of ongoing mutual hatred between local youth and local law enforcement which manifests itself throughout displays of racial profiling, unapologetic discrimination and excessive force of the openly racist officers. There was a clear separation between upper, middle and lower class people and this is made apparent in La Haine because the lower class people from the estate, surrounded by poverty are juxtaposed with the upper/middle class people in Paris due to their mannerisms, locations and clothing etc. As Ardagh writes, "la banlieue' has today come to evokesocial tensions, delinquency, high jobless rates, frustration, maybe racial conflict". Riots, arson and further fatalities have been the reaction to French police brutality. The film follows three young men and their time spent in the French suburban "ghetto," over a span of twenty-four hours. These banlieues provide the backdrop for Kassovitz’s story of three young male immigrants living in a multi-ethnic council estate. – Hatred breeds hatred. La Haine It's easy to see why La Haine had such an explosive effect when it was released in France; its potent portrait of racial discord and life in the housing projects outside of Paris is at odds with France's egalitarian vision of itself. The English word is intrinsically linked with idealistic portraits of quaint family life in countryside towns; the French word, on the other hand, refers to areas rife with youth unemployment, urban poverty and high crime rates. Themes in La Haine La Haine deals with various themes relating to citizenship in France - poverty, the treatment of ethnic minority groups, racism, crime, the relationship between young people and the police, anti-social behaviour, drugs and the status of women in La … Well, actually two messages. It remains to be seen what will happen from now on in America but sporadic massacres – including the Orlando massacre, the biggest terror attack on the country since 9/11 – illustrate the country’s continued need to tighten gun control laws and Trump’s nationalist rhetoric is currently buoying existing racist views nationwide. That’s the only way to battle systemic violence. While that idea has become more common, in the 1980s and 1990s, it was still considered to be radical and extreme. It is commonly released under its French title "La Haine", although its U.S. VHS release was titled Hate. Although racism which there is some form of resolution and the establishmentis not confronted directly in La Haine, this opening does of a new equilibrium.suggest an outward looking and universal resistance. Community. We all have. La Haine centers around a day in the life of Hubert, Saïd and Vinz — three youths somewhere between the ages of 16–20. Remettre la statue de Macdonald au parc, comme l’appelle plusieurs politiciens, serait à mon avis une erreur. La Haine was to some extent based on an actual event: the death of an 18-year-old black youth shot dead during interrogation by police in 1992. I was able to stop the urge to leave the live-stream, but what was happening felt not okay. That’s an organisational responsibility and needs to be dealt with immediately. It is about three young friends and their struggle to live in the banlieues of Paris. However, during the podcast, the impression was given (by a small group that claimed to speak for the community as a whole but actually didn’t, as the comments in the live chat proved) that De School is one of the most unsafe places to be. He writes about film, television, and pop culture for … This may be because women from the suburbs face far less institutional and social racism. by: John Downing / Southern Illinios University Crash. Hatred was the way to go. <> Vinz (about the gun) best way to get respect ... <> Hubert- hate attracts hate <> Hubert - you can not kill all the cops His words echo throughout the film as we see the characters beaten by policemen and forced to sleep on the streets; they resonate again as neo-Nazis beat the boys in a racist attack (followed by a scene which sees Vinz incapable of cold-blooded murder) and they become extremely pertinent when Vinz is accidentally shot dead by a police officer. Founder of STASIS. Club culture changed my views dramatically. Not going to spoil anything, it is a must-see because of the cinematic aesthetics and because of the message. We should be aware of our differences (in race, gender, class, religion and more) and never allow the system to use them against us. The second one is even more critical and less visible: individual action matters. It was 21 years ago that Mathieu Kassovitz unleashed the critically-acclaimed La Haine, an unflinching tale of racial tension and police brutality in the banlieues of Paris. Within French society, French police have been known to kill innocent, young, French minorities by accident. In the early 1990s race, gender, class, religion didn’t matter. In Podcast Over Media, Dutch tech entrepreneur Alexander Klöpping admitted he is stuck in the 1990s. Partly because during the last two decades an intersectional approach has been substituted for a sectional. There have been over 300 incidents reported. La Haine explores the cyclical nature of hate fueled by anger, prejudices, and racism; as it is said in the film– "la haine attire la haine" or hatred breeds hatred. La Haine is set in 1990’s; Set in outskirts of Paris – Les Banlieues (urban estate). Still drowns himself in pop culture every second of the day. by: John Downing / Southern Illinios University Crash. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. De School feels like a lost cause after all that has been said, but I hope we can learn from this and make sure that the electronic dance music culture becomes inclusive (again). We tend to think we are just pawns in a bigger play dominated by abstract organisations and systems. Mathieu Kassovitz is a 29-year-old French director who in his first two films has probed the wound of alienation among France's young outsiders. In 1993, a young immigrant was shot by an officer at point blank range. Vinz, a Jew, Saïd, an Arab, and Hubert, a black boxer, have grown up in these French suburbs where high levels of diversity coupled with the racist and oppressive police force have raised tensions to a critical breaking point. These banlieues can be literally translated as ‘suburbs’, a translation which is somewhat misleading.