La Haine: Difference between revisions

** [[What Could Have Been]]: A color re-release was planned in case the original release flopped.

* [[Downer Ending]]: See below.

** Fans of French film might recognize one of the police officers as Djamel, the adorably awkward and good-natured neighbor from Chacun Cherche son Chat (titled "When the Cat's Away" in the U.S.). In La Haine, he is not so [[Police Brutality|adorable]].

** This was [[Black Swan|Vincent]] [[Oceans Eleven|Cassel]]'s [[Retroactive Recognition|breakthrough role]].

* [[Police Brutality]]: a particularly brutal vicious circle relationship between the Paris police and a group of teenage thugs from the local banlieues. The police raid the deprived banlieues, the people who live there fight back, which means the police crack down harder on the area, which means the people start rioting...{{spoiler|It eventually culminates in the police shooting an unarmed teenage boy, and one officer and the boy's best friend holding guns to each other's heads. And then the screen goes to black and a single gunshot is heard. End of film.}}

* [[Straw Man Has a Point]]: The behaviour of the main characters and their tendency to escalate anything into a fight can increasingly make one feel that the police's treatment of them is entirely justified.

** Arguably [[Rule of Symbolism]]: The police used to be referred to as 'les vaches' (cows) in France. So it's foreshadowing and a possible hallucination by Vinz - there are a number of unexplained instances of this, e.g. when he {{spoiler|'shoots' the police officer in the train station.}}

* [[You Talkin to Me]]? : Reenacted by Vinz.