La haine (1995)

French Movie.

While to most outsiders Paris seems the very picture of beauty and civility, France has had a long and unfortunate history of intolerance toward outsiders, and this powerful drama from filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz takes an unblinking look at a racially diverse group of young people trapped in the Parisian economic and social underclass. Vinz (Vincent Cassel), who is Jewish, Hubert (Hubert Kounde), who is Black, and Said (Said Taghmaoui), who is Arabic, are young men from the lower rungs of the French economic ladder; they have no jobs, few prospects, and no productive way to spend their time. They hang out and wan...
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der the streets as a way of filling their days and are sometimes caught up in frequent skirmishes between the police and other disaffected youth. One day, a street riot breaks out after police seriously injure an Arab student; the three friends are arrested and questioned, and it is learned that a policeman lost a gun in the chaos. However, what they don't know is that Vinz picked it up and has it in his possession, and when Vinz, Hubert, and Said get into a scuffle with a group of racist skinheads, the circumstances seem poised for tragedy. Actress Jodie Foster was so impressed with La Haine when she saw it at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival that she helped to arrange American distribution for the film through her production company, Egg Pictures.
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Een Arabische jongen uit een Parijse voorstad wordt tijdens een verhoor zo hard aangepakt dat hij levensgevaarlijk verwond in het ziekenhuis belandt. Het gevolg is het uitbreken van rellen waarbij de politie slaags raakt met groepen jongeren. In het gewoel raakt een politieagent zijn pistool kwijt dat in handen van Vinz komt. Hij en zijn twee vrienden willen de gewonde jongen bezoeken, maar de politie stuurt ze weg. Vinz zweert dat hij de politieagent vermoordt als de jongen sterft.

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