Then again, it may be meant to confuse the audience just like it confused Vinz.
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The movie is very powerful and has a good initital message but when you think deeper as Celia suggested you begin to think about people and the way we act as certain "characters."Īs for the cow, I am not sure whether or not that is a hallucination or a hidden message, because that part confused me in general. What has been mentioned so far, has really made me think this time around, being the second time I have seen this movie, about the deeper aspects here. But could you say that is just human nature's need to put people in "categories?" Are we incapable as human beings to ignore the stereotypes and treat people as they are before we judge? Reply Delete
It also doesn't help that every outsider treats you to a certain degree based completely on stereotypes. You can leave the actual location but the location can never completely leave you. So maybe this movie represents that you can't necessarily escape from where you are from. But even Said got rough with the ladies at the art gallery. Possibly the innocence that is still present in the banlieue and the innocence that is forgotten about since everyone just assumes they are all like Vinz and even like Hubert. It is harder for me to classify what Said represents. We see this when his form of rebellion was doing graffiti on the police men's car but not participating in riots or when he hid behind the cop's car at the final scene where Vinz gets shot. He always was in good spirits and hung out with Hubert and Vinz but was always m.i.a when fighting broke out. And then Said seemed to be the most innocent out of the three.
He is involved in every riot and makes outlandish accusations to anyone who threatens himself or his community. He seems to represent to me the pride of the banlieue. There is Vinz who is Jewish and acts extremely tough. But, we see as the movie progresses that Hubert can't escape from what the banlieue has raised him to be. We see Hubert who represents the guy who wants to make something of himself.He wants to be more than just the stereotypical black man from the banlieue. On the surface, this film could be taken as just following a day in the lives of three ethnic men from the "hood" of Paris but there is so much more substance to it then that. The movie did not necessarily look as real as a newsreel like in "Battle of Algiers" but with that said I think there was definitely a documentary feel to the movie. The movie was able to be very powerful without using a complicated storyline or setting. I agree with everything that Libby has already talked about. It doesn’t matter how you fall, just how you land.” What did you guys think about the movie? Reply Delete
“So far, so good…so far, so good…so far, so good. I found this interesting but a bit confusing as to why they did it and I also loved the quote that they used in the beginning and end of the movie and how it related to how the movie ended. I noticed a bunch of times throughout the film when there were sudden gun shots that didn’t necessarily have to do with the scene, but were used to switch scenes. Personally, I can’t really decide whether it was an omen that something bad was going to happen or if it was just Vinz hallucinating when he was high after they smoked. The cow that Vinz saw was definitely an interesting element. That scene was undoubtedly weird, but it caused the movie to stray from everything else that was going on and created a type of diversion. The same goes for when the three main characters went to Snoopy’s apartment. First, the old guy in the bathroom who interrupted Vinz and his rant about shooting cops definitely created a pause in the movie that made both the characters and the viewers to stop and think. The passing of time was seen as the guys tried to occupy themselves throughout the day, but there were also a lot of interruptions in the movie that allowed time to be slowed down. I think the way that the film showed time was really interesting too – with the movie being over the course of 24 hours and the guys literally waiting around as the day passed. The filmmaker’s intent of making the three main characters all from different ethnic groups from the banlieues made the film both dynamic and definitely more interesting. The fact that the film was in black and white and the fact that there was footage of actual riots in the beginning made the film stronger and allowed us as viewers to follow the story beyond the cinematography. I found the whole dynamic of La Haine really interesting, especially with all of the subliminal messages that made the film so powerful.