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.
@@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.
@@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
@@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 !
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 …
"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
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,
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.
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.
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!
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
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
Yall dont have a clue tslking bs, this is just a day in the life of 3 french friends from 3 diffrent Religions. To this day everything in the movie is gping on rn
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
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
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
How does the cow symbolize that? Not trying to be antagonistic. Legitimately interested in your interpretation
@@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.
@@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
@@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 !
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.
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.
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.
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.
both true, so cool ^^
I interpreted that too
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 …
"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
It is a silent "h" in hatred in French.
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,
such a masterpice, damn what a movie.
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.
that was a really enjoyable and welcome distraction from my essay for uni. Thx!
Literally just saved my A-level french essay THANK YOU
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.
Una de las peliculas mas poderosas de todos los tiempos, hoy mas relevante que ayer.
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.
That crazy shot is a dolly zoom
You speak about one of most famous movie for me... Thx to share your sensation & knowledge about this legend.
Including trainspotting, it's the best movie ever made about nothing. Love it so much
it is not about nothing...that is 4 sure. ✌️
Helped me with an analysis I was doing for my art class on la Haine. Thanks man
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!
Great essay you got potential. Why did you stop making videos?
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
'Focus puller !! - respect u saw that
My favourite movie 😍
This is great! Hope to see more videos like this. Congrats! New suscriber
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
Yall dont have a clue tslking bs, this is just a day in the life of 3 french friends from 3 diffrent Religions.
To this day everything in the movie is gping on rn
What’s the technique used at 3:17
This is called the dolly zoom effect, I think it's when you walk away and zoom in at the same time.
is there anyone similar film ?
Cidade de deus
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
Great essay!
Amazing essay! Please keep it going!
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
what a video perfect for A Level revision
Dude this is amazing, where are you
Banger
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.
You should come back to TH-cam
What a great essay
very nice man
Citing for my research paper on La Haine
I'm studying La Haine for my French A-level and while this was helpful, the pronunciation of La haine hurt me
Yea but this dudes British. I’m pretty sure pronouncing French words correctly is punishable by death in England 😂
0:31 joe rogan?
Merci mon ami
u forget about cow )
I still dont know what does that mean?
Kaan Eryılmaz nobody does
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.
@@popcrashboom2111 Thank you! I never think in this way.
@@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.
I NEED SUBTITLES PLEASEEE
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.
Banger