![]() ![]() By adopting a ‘realist’ aesthetic and depiction of a savage 24 hours in the lives of three racial minorities of France, the film makes visible ‘a social time bomb ready to explode’ (Sanjay Sharma, ‘So Far So Good: La Haine and the Poetics of the Everyday) in the decaying multi-racial suburbs of France, torn apart by racial and class division. La Haine examines one that has its own identity its own wounds…” La Haine presents a nightmarish glimpse of how its three male protagonists attempt to survive in a racist milieu of surveillance, exclusion and annihilation, with a central message explicitly about an impending crisis for French society. ![]() Also the actors, director and crew from the film lived in a real project to better inform themselves of the nature of poverty which resides in the projects, in order to convey the realest performance which they possibly could.From the words of Jodie Foster in her review of La Haine in Shooting Down Pictures, “in a Europe so saturated with American culture and its media barrage of violent images, there is a young disenfranchised generation emerging from the embers. Real - This word describes the film well as it was about the riots at the time, including real footage from those.Pessimistic - this word describes La Haine as there is a tendency for bad outcomes, for example, Hubert builds a gym for the people of the project to spend time in rather than resorting to crime from violence, however the gym is burned down, we clearly see Hubert during this scene losing hope and resorting back to drug use. ![]() The characters living in the project have little opportunity in their lives to escape poverty, making bleak future with no prospects for many characters.
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