Suddenly fed up with the game that they are all playing, pretending that they will all be fine when

There is then a close up of his face as he is Vinz brag about their confrontation with the police. As Hubert looks at theīillboard, we get the feeling that he is frustrated by the emptiness of its words, as he listens to Looks out the window of the train, after Vinz has pulled the gun on a cop. Shot of the globe with the caption “The World Is Yours.” We first see the billboard as Hubert However, they say that “society” is falling, fooling itself into thinking everything is fine as it movesĠ0:01:05 A graphic match between this shot and the following burning car present the theme ofĪs the film progresses, the motif of the globe is repeated through the use of a billboard that has a Himself, “so far so good.” “But it‟s not how you fall that matters it‟s how you land.” At the end, Story is told about a man who is falling from a skyscraper every time he passes a floor he says to The thesis of this film seems to be the anecdote that is repeated at the beginning and the end the Kassovitz, who grew up in Paris, makes several interesting choices that make this film aĬommentary on life in the projects, and a commentary on French society.

La Haine is a film that shows a France plagued by gangs and police brutality. Mathieu Kassovitz‟s film shows a France that most Americans would not expect, given that mostĪssociations with French films in Parisian settings are more along the lines of cutesyĪmelie(which Kassovitz costarred in) than a gritty film that exposes the dark underside of the

La haine