La Haine

My French teacher advised me to watch this film. Stating he would let us watch it in school if it was appropriate. But honestly appropriate or not it is the kind of film I feel everybody should watch.

The film is about a teenage boy named Abdel who is hospitalized after being beaten by police. People are angry and riots start, in which I policeman looses his gun. The film focuses around a group of three teeangers Saïd, Hubert and Vinz who during the riot found the missing gun. The film follows them for a day and finishes dramatically and unexpectedly. 

It is an amazing film, it is simple, and natural. 

Emotionally it is seriously taxing. Although subtily, you wtch it and feel the emotions circling with the three characters, and get to know them and how they deal with the events hapening around them. 

The characters are the minorities in france Vinz being a Jew Saïd an Arab and Hubert and African. They are the minority they are poor and they are young men, living in violence and lack of trust. 

The senarios in the film are pretty extreme but not unbelievable. 

Having the film shot in Black and White, I think highlighted the emotion in the film, you focused a lot more on the feelings in the film, than the area it was set in, or where they were. The film on the surface you could say is also blcak and white, as the emotions and feelings about the situation for each character are very obvious. You understand how each is feeling and how each will act in Abdels death, but then it gets deeper as the day goes on and the boys start to feel past there anger, and feel guilt and fear. 

The acting was amazing, and was so natural, it felt incredibly real but didn't loose the feeling of a film. There were quirky odd bits added in, using clever camera work, or slowmotion, and there were a few things that were unexplained and random, but that just seemed to add to the film, although it could often ruiin a film. The film was raw and emotinal, with an unexpected and shcoking ending, which I would say hits you harder the second time round. 

Luella