The film is book-ended by an idea submitted as a conversation about a person falling from a high rise window. This story is set in an area of depressing housing projects where the chances of upward mobility doesn't exist, exacerbated by tensions between the police and a diverse population trying to make ends meet. Being a French film, the city in this case is Paris, but not the Paris one sees in travel brochures.

Translated, it means 'Hate', and that emotion is palpable throughout the story of three young men with no direction, no job, and nothing to do with themselves except kill time by hanging around in one section of the city or another. That's the sort of picture 'La Haine' is. In many cases, moral equivalency enters the picture, and we're left to distinguish between bad and less bad. In today's world, 'right' often comes up empty handed, and often there's a fine line between differentiating the good from the bad. In a lot of cases, civic and moral dilemmas could often be resolved with right winning out over wrong in the end. It's how you land.'Īfter watching this film I reflected back on a whole host of films I've seen produced by Warner Brothers back in the Forties and Fifties, having to do with the subject of poverty and how that can lead to crime and lost lives. Reviewed by classicsoncall 8 / 10 / 10 '.it's not how you fall that matters. And, perhaps most of all, THE perfect script.Īs much a realistic portrayal of a torn society as it is an artistic achievement, 'La Haine' is essential viewing.

Everything fits: the musical choices, the outstanding performances by the 3 main characters, the beautiful cinematography and flawless direction. But it's also a cinematic masterpiece and great, often hilarious entertainment. While there are so many references to Scorsese that you could almost call it an homage, this French milestone deals with the disillusioned youth who live in the outskirts of Paris in such an elegant - and honest - way, that I would go so far as to call it the most relevant French film of the last 20 years. 'Mean Streets' in french - and so much more. Reviewed by gogoschka-1 10 / 10 / 10 The most relevant French film of the last 20 years

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