When the 3 characters are on the roof, Said (the arab guy) says "Look i'm gonna shut off the eiffel tower" and snaps his fingers, to which Hubert (the black guy) answers "it only works in movies, dumbass", Suggesting that it has been repeated so many times in movies. But then a few moments later when they leave the eiffel tower shuts off. Maybe kassovitz reminded us that it was actually just a movie, and this story is deemed to repeat itself. Why I chose to to interpret it that way was because of the "repitition" theme showing up several times, The very first and the very last scene where Saïd closes his eyes suggests that the movie is a time loop these banlieusards are stuck in. Also the cow is a symbol for repitition in jewish culture.
@sbakernyc57612 жыл бұрын
How does the cow symbolize that? Not trying to be antagonistic. Legitimately interested in your interpretation
@orbit53112 жыл бұрын
@@sbakernyc5761 There is a superstition that if a cow enters your garden, someone in your family will die. When the movie starts, we learn that the friend of the gang, Abdel, was beaten while in police custody and is in critical condition in the hospital. We learn that there was mass rioting and violence due to public outrage and anger at the police. In my opinion, the cow represents the police and the garden is the neighborhood. Throughout the movie the gang gets into altercations with the police who are patrolling the neighborhood after the violence of the other night. In the end, it is Vinz, the one who saw the cow during the riots and the one who constantly brings up the cow, who dies. The superstition is fulfilled, someone in the gang, which is as tight as a family, dies.
@homr2 жыл бұрын
@@orbit5311 Oh wow thanks for the insight, I didn't know that. @SBakerNYUC The cow "fact" I found while reading a little bit about jewish culture and tradition on wikipedia
@freddoshady5277 Жыл бұрын
@@homr @Orbit @SBakerNYC and in France we have a "expression" which is "mort aux vaches" that we can translate to "death to cow" and its refer to the police "(cow = police) so its basically just "death to cop" and the director Matthieu Kassovitz said in a interview that he was inspired by that phrase back then for that scene !
@Fredreegz Жыл бұрын
What I got from that scene and those lines was that; those movies are fake, idealised fantasies that don’t really exist - this is reality as it actually is. Imperfect.
@buffkapital4 жыл бұрын
Interesting. That's not how I interpreted that DJ scene at all. To me, the music represents a spirt flying free from the shackles of poverty, oppression, inequality, and desperation. The Scene Represents Hope. Music Respresents Life.
@emilyb14262 жыл бұрын
My French teacher told us that it's a way of showing that the French people in the banlieue are just as French as the people in Paris, for example. The way they mix a classic French song with a modern rap song showing that while they're different, they're also living in the same world with the same rules and things.
@sbakernyc57612 жыл бұрын
I tend to agree more with you. However I think the beauty of this movie is the fact that so much of it is open to interpretation. Borderline arbitrary. I'm sure much of this was by design, as it forces us to think, and analyze it both as outsiders, and from the point of view of Said, Vinz and Hubert.
@Lukas-un6wt Жыл бұрын
both true, so cool ^^
@_juaem Жыл бұрын
I interpreted that too
@kg7219 Жыл бұрын
For me it feels like a direct response to the very assimilation heavy attitude the French seem to have … like when u move to France ur expected to call urself French and leave behind ur old culture and that falls in direct contrast to the way a lot of African and middle eastern cultures feel abt it …
@user-mq3um5iu2q3 жыл бұрын
"C'est une histoire d'une société qui tombe et qui se répète sans cesse, au fur et à mesure de sa chute: 'Just-qu'ici tout va bien Just-qu'ici tout va bien Just-qu'ici tout va bien' Mais l'important, c'est pas la chute. C'est l'atterrissage." --Hubert, La Haine
@stojangavrilevic29063 жыл бұрын
this is the best reflection of periferic life ,and after you watch this movie realize that some sort of people in other countrys ,total different people think ,act ,love each other in a same way ,its a very good visualization ,i was raised up in eastern europe but i dont notice any difference ,its a very good movie,
@westartfromhere77043 жыл бұрын
It is a silent "h" in hatred in French.
@niccoPk6 жыл бұрын
that was a really enjoyable and welcome distraction from my essay for uni. Thx!
@bastianmaoro82784 жыл бұрын
such a masterpice, damn what a movie.
@zoeisobellovell28804 жыл бұрын
Literally just saved my A-level french essay THANK YOU
@ori_m9448 Жыл бұрын
I loved the story of the guy from the restroom. I think it was an analogy for the necessity of relentless brutality when one seeks to evoke change: If you shit in the bushes, history will forget you. Gotta have the balls to expose yourself for all to see if you want to make an impact.
@sebastianpedone72093 жыл бұрын
Una de las peliculas mas poderosas de todos los tiempos, hoy mas relevante que ayer.
@pricklypear3004 жыл бұрын
And these are more visible minorities among many in French society. Remember the Asian store owner who were being harassed by these three? I saw him in other films as a notable character so not exactly a part time actor. And Vinces sister? Who Saïd said he'll cut her throat like they dispatch animals in Halal tradition? And Saïd's own sister who got like 20 seconds of screen time and got told by her brother to go home and study? For some these three are the big guys.
@southendonseaarts4 жыл бұрын
Recently got the criterion Blu-ray of La Haine have to say it was a pleasure to see it again after so many years very insightful essay.
@WhiteWidowFromParis4 жыл бұрын
You speak about one of most famous movie for me... Thx to share your sensation & knowledge about this legend.
@alico72164 жыл бұрын
That crazy shot is a dolly zoom
@masterblaster831 Жыл бұрын
Including trainspotting, it's the best movie ever made about nothing. Love it so much
@Guevaraful3 ай бұрын
it is not about nothing...that is 4 sure. ✌️
@StoueDBadmon5 жыл бұрын
Helped me with an analysis I was doing for my art class on la Haine. Thanks man
@priyanshiagarwal5381 Жыл бұрын
what an amazing video essay! thanks so muchh for sharing!! i appreciate this would've taken a long time to put together, but it's incredibly effective and useful for my A level French revision!
@rabbitss11404 жыл бұрын
Interesting, another great piece of film making covering much the same theme is Jacques Audiard's Un Prophet, a real masterpiece of life within the penal system
@Dams91300 Жыл бұрын
My favourite movie 😍
@Unshaded1756 жыл бұрын
Great essay you got potential. Why did you stop making videos?
@nicholasgood4703 жыл бұрын
'Focus puller !! - respect u saw that
@berkdincer56744 жыл бұрын
Literally helped me so much, make a big difference, I had no idea about the film therefore I will not able to talk in the lecture. Now I got the idea about movie but still will not talk :D
@LumaFilmsUK6 жыл бұрын
Great essay!
@miguelangelleijac91744 жыл бұрын
This is great! Hope to see more videos like this. Congrats! New suscriber
@lecharo59803 жыл бұрын
what a video perfect for A Level revision
@alejandrogiorlando18864 жыл бұрын
Amazing essay! Please keep it going!
@sergeipetrochemie98944 жыл бұрын
What a great essay
@pietro_ferrari2 жыл бұрын
You know why the movie is shocking? Because isn’t a fantasy. It’s our reality. More than 10 years passed, and the hate stills the same.
@boardingurban4 жыл бұрын
3:38 that's your dolly zoom from Scarface (1983). Great Movie. One of my favourites. especially because I don't need subtitles! by the way, it's not a b to pull off.. Auto Focus, and drag out the cam on glidecam/gimbal. Then in post, zoom out, or make the video smaller.. I recommend you shoot in 4K and deliver in 1080
@cloudtankmedia82926 жыл бұрын
very nice man
@hardcorejacob Жыл бұрын
Banger
@Phily3bats2 жыл бұрын
It's not really about the racial situation but much more about the social one, vinz is a jew but no cop probably knows that, still he is going to be treated as shit due to his social condition and the place he lives in
@alextyurina95135 жыл бұрын
Dude this is amazing, where are you
@thomasjardine21085 жыл бұрын
Citing for my research paper on La Haine
@alpereniner31784 жыл бұрын
is there anyone similar film ?
@laiiamrasa49904 жыл бұрын
Cidade de deus
@janiholtshausen13 Жыл бұрын
I'm studying La Haine for my French A-level and while this was helpful, the pronunciation of La haine hurt me
@kg7219 Жыл бұрын
Yea but this dudes British. I’m pretty sure pronouncing French words correctly is punishable by death in England 😂
@starwarsprequelsandsequels75823 жыл бұрын
Merci mon ami
@aminekmd29403 жыл бұрын
You should come back to KZbin
@MrNepal88483 жыл бұрын
0:31 joe rogan?
@jackcraftmc3 жыл бұрын
What’s the technique used at 3:17
@dilutewall77533 жыл бұрын
This is called the dolly zoom effect, I think it's when you walk away and zoom in at the same time.
@AG4T4 жыл бұрын
u forget about cow )
@kaanerylmaz96434 жыл бұрын
I still dont know what does that mean?
@fredpassurw39214 жыл бұрын
Kaan Eryılmaz nobody does
@popcrashboom21113 жыл бұрын
Kaan Eryılmaz Vinz is jewish and in the jewish religion seeing a cow is a sign of a close death. It was a foreshadowing for his death at the end of the movie.
@AG4T3 жыл бұрын
@@popcrashboom2111 Thank you! I never think in this way.
@westartfromhere77043 жыл бұрын
@@popcrashboom2111 Vince is a Jewish mystic , not a religious Jew. Vincent sees a cow because the cow is there; not in his own time but in an other's Time.
@simgehazal Жыл бұрын
I NEED SUBTITLES PLEASEEE
@admiralbenbow5083 Жыл бұрын
This analysis, dissection or vivisection if you like ruins what is a very good film. Most people are sufficiently intelligent to draw their own conclusions on this piece without some pseudo intellectual patronising BS being rammed down our throats. Its like someone who feels the need to dissect a joke, just longer, it completely ruins it. Most critics are a pain in the ass.