#La haine ending movie
This movie is just cool as shit - its opening, a spoken intro followed by an exploding Molotov cocktail and convincing-looking video footage scored to Bob Marley's "Burnin' and a Lootin' Tonight," is obviously inspired by Mean Streets and about as effective in putting its foot down and proclaiming, "Here's a fucking movie." La Haine has style to burn, mixing and matching a simmering sense of frustration and impatience (wide shots, long takes, extended silences, an offbeat monologue by an aging victim of the gulag) with an explosive kinetic energy (a camera floating out a ghetto window, a propulsive hip-hop soundtrack mixing and matching American beats with French lyrics, jacked-up cutting and a constantly moving frame). La Haine itself exploded on the scene in the mid-90s, and a decade later it was more relevant than ever during the 2005 riots, writer/director Mathieu Kassovitz engaged in a public debate with future President Nicolas Sarkozy over the justification for the rioters' rage. Will they use it? The film follows them as they fight, dance, get high, hang out, visit the city, get beaten up by cops, and visit a friend, himself a victim of police brutality. Last night there was a massive riot, tonight there will probably be another, and meanwhile today they have a gun, stolen from a cop. They live on the edge: the edge of Paris (in France, the suburbs - "la banlieu" - are the equivalent of American inner cities), the edge of society, the edge of violence, the edge of their own sanity. Three young friends - an Arab, a Jew, and an African (no this isn't a bar joke) are French, yet they are outsiders in their own country.Mathieu Kassovitz) appeared at #99 on my original list.
#La haine ending series
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