Shot in black and white with superb camera angles, a great script, and a great cast. La Haine is a movie that was pretty revolutionary for its time. It predates anything that is happening in the ghettos’ of France today. Matthieu Kassovitz shows us why such a small little film can be so powerful and so effective. Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde, and Said Taghmaoui are terrific as three friends all from different backgrounds searching for the meaning of life. As we follow the characters throughout their neighborhood and into the more illustrious part of the city, we begin to realize how ill fated their lives actually are. Vincent Cassel’s character Vinz is a young punk desperately looking to further his hate against authority. Cassel represents the anger in life. Said (also the character Said in the movie) represents the little man looking to rise up to battle his own convictions; And Hubert, my favorite character, striving to obey the system, but because he’s driven over the edge, he develops his own hate in the end. Watch out for the acting by the 29 year old Cassel… It is phenomenal and uplifting. Thank you Frenchie for recommending this one!
La haine (The Hate)
Published: October 18, 2009Posted in: Cinerama, Cult, Editor's Choice, European, Foreign, Peter
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At first he was obsessed with Hollywood and the movies that came out of Hollywood, and then Peter saw David Lynch's 'Eraserhead.' The mind blowing surreal movie changed his perception on movies forever, and he hounded for more. Because of the dark tone that David Lynch incorporates in his films, Peter generally seeks out films that are identical. His favorite films tend to be politically based, dark and surreal, and have a sense of realism or poetry in them. His favorite genre is horror, but he does enjoy a comedy (more dark than light) now and again. There are times, however, that he does enjoy a little entertainment. 
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Dude you can’t say it’s talking about “slums”…. Those are in no way shape or form slums; they are the average suburban housing in France… Ghettos maybe, but slums… that’s a very poor choice of word… Especially when you compare “la banlieue” to the slums buildings in Paris…
I guess the U.S. just has a higher standard of living, Frenchie.
Actually I believe it would be France that has the higher standard of living.
To answer one of you two…. didn’t we all go to college with a hot trailer park chick??? we don’t have trailer parks in Europe… the only people living in trailers are gypsies…