La Haine: Info.

Question 1

Release date:

Answer 1

1995

Question 2

Hollywood style influences:

Answer 2

done in chapters - similar to City of God

Question 3

How can you tell the film is set in France?

Answer 3

• French signs on the vans

- unfamiliar layout and setting of houses/high-rise buildings therefore not UK

Question 4

What is the narrative structure?

Answer 4

Non-linear narrative

Question 5

“La haine attire la haine”

Answer 5

“Hatred breeds hatred.”

Question 6

Opening sequence narrator:

Answer 6

The opening sequence narrator is the same as the ending (sentence about falling)

• the story has gone full-circle

Question 7

Gunshot opening:

Answer 7

Opens their story with a gunshot and ends with a gunshot:

• a foreshadowing for future events
• cycle of crime: starts the same and ends the same

Question 8

Why is the theme is educational?

Answer 8

Emphasising police corruption and violence

Question 9

Who is the director?

Answer 9

Mathieu Kassovitz

Question 10

What do riots symbolise?

Answer 10

Unrest

Question 11

Why are the police corrupt within the film?

Answer 11

They abuse their authority:

- “don’t forget the police kill.”

Question 12

Run-down buildings show..

Answer 12

Poverty

Question 13

Hollywood influences into the films society are..

Answer 13

Young criminals are aspiring to be the typical Hollywood gangsters as seen in the movies

e.g. Taxi Driver