You are missing out, and if I could swear in this column, I could express my true feelings about some people’s problem with subtitles. Unfortunately, I will have to settle with saying that if the last several sentences describe you, then you are an imbecile and I hate you.ĭespite the original conflict and the fact that Vinz carries the gun with him for a large part of the film, La Haine is hardly a crime thriller.
What it really is a movie about the helplessness of poverty and the navigation of a broken social system which is constantly falling into further disrepair.
Vinz, Hubert and Saïd spend most of their day aimlessly killing time, which is undercut by the splicing of black frames showing only the time in between scenes of the three doing nothing.Īt the same time, despite the mundaneness of their lives, there is a sense that all three young men are constantly being persecuted, as if the authorities are always after them.ĭespite that, however, police in the film are generally portrayed sympathetically. They are not an abstract evil but are more just people trying to do their job. Granted, this does not apply to all police in the movie. Paragraph break here, because I am going to go throw up. That was nice, but back to the matter at hand. Adding to that sense of persecution is the gun which Vinz carries with him. That gun’s menace extends beyond its lethality. Not only is it a gun, but it is a cop’s gun, a tool of the oppressor in the hands of the oppressed. It makes Vinz a hunted man, especially since guns are not exactly common in France. In addition, the presence of a gun and its importance to the overall story means that, adhering to Chekhov’s argument, it must be used at some point. Every scene is tense with the possibility that Vinz may choose to use that gun. The concept of a looming menace in the film is furthered by the cinematography, which makes use of soft focus to obscure figures in the background, turning them into threatening shadows. This is especially effective since background characters are fairly sparse in the movie.
Thus, any person lurking in the back of the shot has threatening potential. The film’s use of black and white adds to the effect by turning each scene into a mélange of contrasting light and dark, deepening the substantial dark spaces. #Watch la haine english subtitles movie.
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