Hate (film)

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Movie
German title hate
Original title La Haine
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1995
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Mathieu Kassovitz
script Mathieu Kassovitz
production Christophe Rossignon
music Assassin
camera Pierre Aïm
cut Mathieu Kassovitz,
Scott Stevenson
occupation

Hass ( French original title La Haine [ la ʔɛn ]) is a French feature film by Mathieu Kassovitz from 1995 . The film, which depicts the bleak life in the banlieues of France, is shot in black and white. It shows 24 hours in the life of the three main young characters, whose world is marked by violence, drugs and harassment by the police.

action

The film begins with these words: “This is the story of a man who falls from the 50th floor of a skyscraper. As he falls, he repeats over and over to calm himself down: 'Up to this point it was still going very well, up to here it was still going well, up to here it was still going very well ...'. But the important thing is not the case, but the landing! "

The film tells 24 hours in the dreary life of the Arab Saïd, the Jew Vinz and the black Hubert, three young people who live in Chanteloup-les-Vignes . The film begins at a time when there is only one subject in the neighborhood: the riots between residents of the neighborhood and the police last night. These were triggered after Abdel, “a boy from her neighborhood”, was critically injured during a routine police check and is now in a coma. During the riots, Vinz finds a police officer's lost revolver and plans to kill an officer if Abdel dies. The fact that an officer has lost his weapon quickly gets around in the neighborhood and in the media, only who the finder is remains a secret of the three main characters.

Vinz, after initially hiding it, always carries the weapon with him, which leads to several dangerous situations both between the three and the police and with other people. This fact leads to a conflict in the group, which is carried out mainly between Hubert and Vinz through several discussions and temporary separations. During a joint visit to Paris, Saïd and Hubert are arrested by the police for disturbing the peace and Vinz is able to escape. The officers mistreat and harass Saïd and Hubert and ensure that they miss their last train into their neighborhood. In the train station they also meet Vinz again, who has been waiting for them.

They then go on a discovery tour through the city together, disrupt a vernissage , try to crack a car, which they manage after starting difficulties - only to then find out that none of them can drive. In the Forum des Halles they then find out that Abdel died of his injuries in the hospital. Vinz's thirst for revenge then lead to a fight over the weapon. Hubert and Saïd separate from Vinz for the time being. They later meet a group of neo-Nazis and are only saved by using Vinz's weapon. The situation is getting worse.

In the morning, the three of them come back to their neighborhood and say goodbye to Hubert, while Vinz hands over the gun to him. Hubert moves away in the opposite direction from Vinz and Saïd. A police car stops in front of them and Vinz is threatened with a weapon by a policeman who had already appeared in the film as uncompromising and provocative several times before. The policeman holds the gun to Vinz's head and berates him for being nothing without his gang, his colleagues. The policeman unintentionally pulls the trigger on his weapon: Vinz is killed by a shot in the head. Hubert, the bearer of the gun, had already become suspicious when the police car stopped and ran back in their direction. Horrified, he observes the course of events and, after some time of understanding, holds the gun to the policeman's head. The policeman also points the gun at Hubert. The camera zooms in on Saïd, who is standing on the other side of the police car and closes his eyes. You can hear a shot. The viewer does not find out who shot.

Reviews

  • Lexicon of international film : “An oppressive excursion into the life of the“ banlieue ”suburbs, in which young people face a hopeless future. The precise staging relentlessly analyzes the social time bomb and condenses its central themes of violence and its consequences, solidarity and powerlessness in haunting images. "
  • epd Film : "Kassovitz has mastered the means of Spike Lee and, if necessary, the clip aesthetics, in order to emphatically point out conditions that could turn out to be time bombs," 11, 1995, quoted. based on: Leokino Cinematograph , 205, December 1995

Awards

Hass is considered a milestone in French cinema in the 1990s and won the award for best director at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995 .

Conception

The film was shot based on a real event. In 1993 a sixteen-year-old Zairian named Makomé Bowole was shot in the temple by a police officer during an interrogation at a police station in one of the banlieues. Bowole was handcuffed to a radiator at the time. The excerpts at the beginning of the film are real videos of the riots that followed.

The film by the then 28-year-old director Mathieu Kassovitz is reminiscent of films like Z or Boyz n the Hood . Hatred was filmed in black and white throughout.

It shows the spiral of violence - starting from both sides and increasing uncontrollably through deeds, rumors and words. The hatred of both sides for one another was and is so insurmountable that it inevitably led to an explosion in the form of acts of violence.

The soundtrack is created by French and African rap bands , whose music reinforces the threatening and dark mood of the images. A side effect of the publication was that the international success of the film made the French hip-hop scene more widely known even beyond the country's borders. The French rapper Joey Starr can be seen in his first film role.

In one scene, the famous taxi-driver mirror scene is adapted - Vinz stands bare-chested in the bathroom and delivers a speech “duel” with his reflection in the mirror.

Director Mathieu Kassovitz makes a small appearance himself. He embodies one of the skinheads in the film.

successor

In 1997 Burning Asphalt (French orig. Ma 6-T va crack-er ) by Jean-François Richet was published . The film tells the prehistory of hatred , but was only shown in cinemas in Paris for a few days because it was feared that the film would incite rioting.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Hate . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2006 (PDF; accessed December 24, 2017).
  2. ↑ Hatred. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ^ Festival de Cannes: La haine . In: festival-cannes.com . Archived from the original on July 7, 2011. Retrieved September 4, 2009.
  4. ↑ Burning asphalt. cinema.de, accessed on August 12, 2016 .