{"id":29610,"date":"2020-06-10T15:27:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T20:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=29610"},"modified":"2020-06-11T13:15:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T18:15:38","slug":"so-far-so-good-la-haine-and-its-tale-of-police-brutality-alienation-and-class-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/entertainment\/2020\/06\/10\/so-far-so-good-la-haine-and-its-tale-of-police-brutality-alienation-and-class-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;So Far, So Good&#8221;: La Haine and its Tale of Police Brutality, Alienation and Class Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">25 years after its release, \u201cLa Haine\u201d stands as a riveting testament to France\u2019s neglected underclass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(<em>WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS THROUGHOUT<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Written and directed by French filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.criterion.com\/films\/216-la-haine\">La Haine<\/a>\u201d (French for \u201cHate\u201d) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995 and received immediate acclaim. Filmed in color but published entirely in black and white due to budget restrictions, the drab palette serves as a star in its own right, complementing the film\u2019s bleak themes with bleak visuals. The result is a symbiotic pairing which works so well that viewing the film\u2019s deleted and extended scenes in color\u2014which remained so due to being on the cutting room floor prior to the film\u2019s release\u2014look almost cartoonish and out of place by comparison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Hs6GwQPAQE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>(Source: YouTube\/YouTube Movies)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLa Haine\u201d centers around a day in the life of Hubert, Sa\u00efd and Vinz\u2014three youths somewhere between the ages of 16-20. Each of the young men live in a vast housing project called the Muguet, constructed miles away from Paris\u2019 five-star restaurants and looming Eiffel Tower in a <em>banlieue<\/em> (suburb). In a curious inverse to many of the housing projects located in the United States, France\u2019s poor are left to rot on the literal margins of a city, whereas America\u2019s poor and disenfranchised dwell within urban areas while those who can afford to do so populate the suburbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kassovitz\u2019s inspiration for \u201cLa Haine\u201d was the April 6, 1993 incident in which a 16-year-old Zairian immigrant in Paris named Makome M\u2019Bowole was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/paris-policeman-charged-1454216.html\">killed while in police custody<\/a>. M\u2019Bowole was accused of shoplifting and was reportedly handcuffed to a radiator when he was shot at point-blank range by a police officer. Following the news of the shooting, violent clashes occurred the next day between officers and protestors who took to the streets to condemn racism and police brutality. M\u2019Bowole\u2019s shooting death was later ruled as an accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLa Haine\u201d is set the morning after a riot raged the previous night between youths and police in a Paris suburb as a response to the brutal beating that a North African teenager named Abdel Ichaha received from the police, leaving him hospitalized and in a coma, an obvious parallel to M\u2019Bowole\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the film begins with an opening montage of various real-life riots raging throughout the streets of Paris set to Bob Marley\u2019s \u201cBurnin\u2019 and Lootin\u2019\u201d, we see footage of a teenager (Sa\u00efd) sneaking past a line of menacing-looking officers standing outside of a police station as he approaches one of their vehicles and writes \u201cF*** THE POLICE!\u201d on it in French with a permanent marker before scurrying away to the apartment of his friend Vinz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a humorous shouting match ensues outside of an apartment building between Sa\u00efd, who\u2019s down on the ground, Vinz\u2019s sister from up above in her apartment window and an older man tells the two to shut up from his window in another building. Sa\u00efd enters the apartment and walks into Vinz\u2019s bedroom, where the latter is found facedown in his bed, drooling as he sleeps. After some nagging from Sa\u00efd, Vinz rolls out of bed and briefly chats with his young friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We then see Vinz sitting at a dining table with his sister, aunt and grandmother while Sa\u00efd joins them. The camera\u2019s framing gives viewers a clue as to how cramped Vinz\u2019s family of four must feel having to live in a small apartment due to their lack of money. After he quickly scarfs down breakfast while his grandmother chides him for not going to temple, the next scene shows Vinz brushing his teeth in the bathroom in one of the film\u2019s most infamous moments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a gold two-fingered ring engraved with his name, a perpetually furrowed brow and a buzzcut reminiscent of a <a href=\"https:\/\/allthatsinteresting.com\/skinheads-history\">working-class British skinhead circa 1960<\/a>, Vinz is cast as the film\u2019s (ultimately, wannabe) tough guy. After brushing his teeth, Vinz turns off the bathroom sink, stares at his reflection in the mirror and impersonates Robert DeNiro\u2019s classic \u201cYou talkin\u2019 to me?\u201d scene from Martin Scorcese\u2019s \u201cTaxi Driver.\u201d Vinz\u2019s impersonation ends with him forming his fingers into the shape of a gun and aiming it at his reflection, an omen of things to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The moment is portrayed as one of the film\u2019s brief episodes of humor in an otherwise dark film. However, I suspect that more is at play in this event. On the surface, it appears as a scene featuring a young, angry kid who takes himself too seriously, but what if the intent is something completely different? Upon further inspection, it appears to me that Vinz\u2019s mean-mugging and DeNiro-esque eyebrow movements are in fact not the result of a young man putting on a mask to show the world how much of a \u201cbadass\u201d he is, but that he is instead psychologically <em>preparing himself<\/em> to face the harsh realities of the world in which he lives. Regardless of Kassovitz\u2019s intention in writing the scene, it\u2019s an interesting concept to consider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Afterward, Vinz heads out to walk with Sa\u00efd while the two share a joint and meet up with their friend Hubert at his boxing gym located near the complex.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WffiufaE4pA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>(Source: YouTube\/Ray01)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Upon entering Hubert\u2019s gym, Sa\u00efd and Vinz discover that the place had been trashed during the riot. As Sa\u00efd and Vinz walk around to examine the damage, they spot Hubert wearing boxing gloves and swinging at a punching bag in the middle of what remains of his dimly-lit gym.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Appearing to be in his early twenties, Hubert is portrayed as the wise, elder, level-headed senior of the group. This is in clear contrast to Vinz being the hot-head and Sa\u00efd acting as the youthful, tagalong little brother of the two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though never explicitly stated, an overarching theme of the film is how the racial differences among the residents of the projects\u2014a mixture of mostly second-generation African and Middle Eastern immigrants\u2014pale in comparison to their shared sense of frustration and alienation as the trio of Hubert, Sa\u00efd and Vinz (West African, Arab and Jewish, respectively) are each aware to some extent of the social stratification they face as members of France\u2019s young, poor immigrant class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hubert then joins Vinz and Sa\u00efd as they wander around the suburb talking with acquaintances, selling marijuana and ribbing each other as the hours tick by. Later on, before the boys set off to visit Abdel in the hospital, Vinz tells Hubert and Sa\u00efd that he has something to show them. We then see the three teenagers standing in an abandoned building as Vinz reaches into his jacket and pulls out a revolver\u2014the same gun that news reports say a police officer dropped during last night\u2019s riots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sa\u00efd takes a look at it and awes in admiration. Hubert, unimpressed, shakes his head in annoyance. Testing Vinz\u2019s \u201cmanhood\u201d in a sense, Hubert takes the gun from Vinz and asks what he plans on doing with it, pointing the barrel in his impulsive friend\u2019s face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vinz quickly snatches the gun back and implies that if Abdel dies in the hospital that he plans on shooting a \u201cpig\u201d in retribution. \u201cYou gonna kill a cop?\u201d Hubert asks, in which Vinz replies \u201cIt\u2019ll get me some respect.\u201d A few lines of dialogue continue between the two when Hubert suddenly feints a punch in Vinz\u2019s direction, causing him to flinch. Hubert smiles at Vinz\u2019s macho facade, issues a word of warning and leaves with Sa\u00efd. Vinz follows them, leaving the gun behind at first but then picks it back up and tucks it in the waist of his jeans without the others knowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What follows next is a series of events that finds the trio wandering around Paris for the evening. After the police refuse to let the boys visit a comatose Abdel in his hospital room, they argue with several officers in the hallway, resulting in Sa\u00efd being apprehended and taken down to the station while Hubert and Vinz get escorted from the premises by a good, honest cop that the kids know from their neighborhood who fortunately happened to be there. The cop takes Vinz and Hubert to the station to free their friend, and as the boys walk back home together, Vinz reveals that he\u2019s had the pistol on him the whole time. Angered, Hubert walks back to his apartment alone and Sa\u00efd follows Vinz back to his apartment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some time passes, then we see Abdel\u2019s older brother sitting in the backseat of a vehicle with two other men as he fires two shotgun rounds at an officer on the sidewalk in broad daylight, who just so happens to be the same cop that helped get Sa\u00efd out of jail. The cop suffers minor damage to his arm and the car is suddenly swarmed by police while Sa\u00efd, Hubert, Vinz and a dozen other neighborhood kids try to intervene before getting chased throughout the projects by the cops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the trio make their escape through an apartment building, Hubert and Vinz find an officer standing in their way. Vinz pulls out his pistol and aims it at the cop with a look of fear and hesitation. Luckily, Hubert swats the gun away, delivers a knockout punch to the officer and the two meet back up with Sa\u00efd before boarding a train to Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the train ride, Vinz embellishes details of the event to Sa\u00efd, loudly bragging how he was just about to blow the officer away before Hubert intervened. While Sa\u00efd and Vinz prattle on in excitement, Hubert sits in front of them with his back turned, gazing out of the window. With a view of trees and nice houses floating by in the distance, Hubert sees a billboard showing a photo of Earth with the words \u201cLe Monde est \u00e0 vous\u201d (The World is Yours) written underneath it. As the sound of the train\u2019s brakes squeal to a stop, Hubert shuts his eyes, trembles and clenches his jaw as if he\u2019s about to cry in frustration. Once the train stops, he opens his eyes again, his expression blank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M2Wl4li8TFo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>(Source:YouTube\/criterioncollection)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now in Paris, the characters run into more trouble. After a drug deal turns sour between the boys and a coke dealer named Snoopy who lives in a swanky condo, the loud commotion leads to the cops arresting Sa\u00efd and Hubert for marijuana possession as they try to leave the premises. An officer chases after Vinz, who evades capture. Next, during a particularly dark scene, two senior officers make a rookie cop observe as they racially mock and physically abuse a now-handcuffed Hubert and Sa\u00efd at a police station. One of the senior officers stresses to the rookie the importance of knowing \u201chow to stop at the right moment.\u201d The trainee is clearly uncomfortable but doesn\u2019t say a single word while the abuse goes on in front of him. Once Sa\u00efd and Hubert are about to be taken to the holding cell, the rookie\u2019s nervous gaze falls to the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having evaded arrest, Vinz spends his time at a movie theater but is unable to relax knowing that his friends have been captured. He runs into some older acquaintances from the Muguet project at an underground boxing event and rides in a car with them. They arrive at a nightclub but aren\u2019t allowed inside by the bouncer. Enraged, one of the older guys pulls out a pistol and shoots the bouncer twice in cold blood while Vinz looks on, frozen in fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Half an hour past midnight, Sa\u00efd and Hubert, released from jail, run through the train station and miss the last train heading back home by mere seconds. Now stuck in Paris until the next train arrives in the morning, the duo reunite with a visibly shaken Vinz on the platform and decide to walk around the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They first stumble across an art gallery filled with abstract pieces, fancy appetizers and glasses of champagne. Donning leather jackets and tough expressions amidst a sea of people wearing expensive suits and trendy outfits, the boys stick out like a sore thumb. After Vinz and Sa\u00efd cause a disturbance by trying to talk to a couple of girls, the owner of the gallery tells them to leave. On their way out, the teenagers mock the group of rich art snobs, knocking over a statue and smashing a champagne glass on the floor in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The boys then try to hotwire a car to get back home but fail, once again having to run from the authorities. We then see the kids sitting on a rooftop and sharing a joint. In a brief moment between the two, Hubert tells Vinz a story about a man who, in the process of falling from a skyscraper that he leaped from, tells himself \u201cSo far, so good\u201d on the way down. Hubert uses the story to explain to Vinz that \u201cit\u2019s not how you fall, it\u2019s how you land.\u201d In response, a stoned Vinz replies that he \u201cfeels like an ant in intergalactic space,\u201d highlighting the feelings of alienation and despair that each of the boys have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later on around 4 a.m., while hanging inside of a shopping mall to kill some time, they see an image of Abdel on a giant tv screen with a chyron reading \u201cMort de Abdel Ichaha\u201d (Abdel Ichaha Dies). Hubert and Sa\u00efd stare at the tv in silence, Vinz looks at Abdel on the screen and softly nods his head to himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About a minute passes when Sa\u00efd and Hubert realize that Vinz has disappeared. Hubert then sees Vinz standing outside of the mall, holding what appears to be a gun and aiming at two officers across the street, unaware of the teenager standing yards away from them. A gunshot goes off and one of the cops goes flying through a glass window. The camera cuts back to Vinz and it\u2019s made clear that he merely fantasized about shooting the officer and that the \u201cgun\u201d in his hand was just his fingers. Hubert runs up behind Vinz and smacks the back of his head in anger, leading to yet another argument between the three friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fed up with Vinz, Hubert and Sa\u00efd walk off on their own while Vinz yells curses at them from a distance. He paces around for a bit and finally chases after his friends. As Hubert and Sa\u00efd walk down the street with Vinz trailing behind, they encounter a group of racist skinheads that Sa\u00efd had been taunting from the rooftop earlier. The gang jumps Hubert and Sa\u00efd until Vinz arrives seconds later and pulls his gun on one of the skinheads (played by Kassovitz in a Hitchcock-esque cameo). The rest of the gang runs away and the boys drag the thug into a secluded area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They toss the skinhead onto a pile of trash and Vinz puts his gun in the thug\u2019s face, saying that he\u2019s going to kill him. The skinhead begs for mercy and Sa\u00efd tells Vinz to stop, but Hubert, knowing that deep down Vinz isn\u2019t the tough guy that he tries to portray, tells Sa\u00efd to back off and encourages Vinz to shoot the racist. At one point, keying in on Vinz\u2019s hesitance, Hubert even cocks the gun and holds it steady for Vinz, who eventually pulls it away and allows the man to live. As the thug runs to safety, Vinz dry heaves and shields his eyes with his hand, as if to mask his tears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7EJs7g8bySY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>(Source: YouTube\/The Cinema Cartography)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the film\u2019s final moments, dawn breaks during the teenagers\u2019 train ride back home. Once they arrive at the projects, Vinz hands Hubert the gun and the three bid each other farewell, with Hubert walking alone and Vinz accompanying Sa\u00efd. As the two joke and laugh, a car suddenly pulls up in front of Sa\u00efd and Vinz. Three plainclothes officers get out and begin harassing them, with one officer pinning Sa\u00efd down against the car and the other two beating up Vinz. As Hubert runs back to his friends in an attempt to stop the abuse, an officer places a gun against Vinz\u2019s head as a scare tactic, which he then accidentally fires, killing Vinz instantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A stunned look appears on the cop\u2019s face as Vinz\u2019s dead body lies on the ground, slumped against the car. Seconds pass until the officer, still in shock at what just happened, notices Hubert standing right behind him, silently staring at the body of his deceased friend. Hubert slowly walks up to the officer, pulls out the same gun that Vinz had given him less than a minute earlier and aims it right in front of the cop\u2019s face, saying nothing and showing no emotion. The officer, fearful, quickly draws his gun in Hubert\u2019s face as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the two stare at each other in silence, the sound of a ticking time bomb plays. The camera begins to slowly zoom in on Sa\u00efd, who\u2019s watching them from behind the car in terror. Hubert cocks the pistol back and in this moment we hear of voice-over of him saying a modulation of the same story he told Vinz earlier on the rooftop, summing up the film\u2019s central theme:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s about a society on its way down and as it falls, it keeps telling itself \u2018So far, so good. So far, so good. So far, so good.\u2019 It\u2019s not how you fall that matters. It\u2019s how you land.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Sa\u00efd\u2019s face now solely in the frame, he shuts his tear-filled eyes and we hear the sound of a gunshot. The screen cuts to black and the credits roll. No follow-up. No resolution. No indication of who shot who. The film has ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the DVD&#8217;s special features, Kassovitz discusses this grisly scene in a 2005 interview where he compares Vinz\u2019s death to the famous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C--iuM8NcQc\">moment<\/a> from John Singleton\u2019s Boyz n the Hood in which the character Ricky gets shot and dies. Kassovitz explains that he\u2019s a fan of the film, but considers the dramatic scene to be unrealistic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI love the film Boyz n the Hood, but I don\u2019t understand the ending where he (Ricky) gets shot and it takes three minutes in slow motion when this is a story where people get shot everyday,\u201d Kassovitz said. \u201cI had imagined that when it (the shooting) happened, we (the audience) wouldn\u2019t even see it\u2014we\u2019d hear the bang and that would be it. I decided that in my film (La Haine) when someone dies, he just dies. When Vincent dies at the end, that\u2019s it. It\u2019s shocking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kassovitz\u2019s 1995 offering of cinematic realism is a dark, moody reflection of life for young men and women around the world forced to live in environments plagued by poverty, violence, oppression, deprivation, alienation, systematic racism, feelings of hopelessness and little chance of escape. My introduction to the film was due to me renting it on a whim from my local library last year after being intrigued by its title. This wound up being one decision that I certainly don\u2019t regret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Quinton Bradley<br><\/strong>Contributing Writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Quinton Bradley is an Ohio-based writer. He runs a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@qbabstract\"><em>blog<\/em><\/a><em> on Medium and can be followed on Twitter<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QBAbstract\"><em> @QBAbstract<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 years after its release, \u201cLa Haine\u201d stands as a riveting testament to France\u2019s neglected underclass. (WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS THROUGHOUT) Written and directed by French filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz, \u201cLa Haine\u201d (French for \u201cHate\u201d) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995 and received immediate acclaim. 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