La Haine (1995)
1995
98 Minutes
Aimlessly whiling away their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz, Hubert, and Said -- a Jew, African, and an Arab -- give human faces to France's immigrant populations, t...
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La Haine is an immortal tapestry of the underground - a solemn and stylish ode to the plight of the "have-nots". As a black man, I know what it's like to fear and have strong contempt for the police, and the day after a riot is no exception. The three main performances burst with passion, their personalities exploding on screen like the aftermath of a ticking time-bomb; as a result, this thinly plotted story is able to express itself through character, and heavy underlying imagery. The philosophy of the film is never pretentious, and it's message never didactic; ultimately, at it's fantastic end we are fully immersed in this world of chaos, no answers, no true resolution - completely left to our own devices.0 member like this review.
