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Kwang-Hee Kim

Muira Nicollet McCammonIsabel Rodriguez

Marie SalanLa Haine

By Mathieu Kassovitz

Introduction:

Why the film is important?-Social-historic platform of recent pre-2005 events in France:

a. secularism b. multiculturalism

Summary of film:

The three main characters of La Haine represent three French minorities that compose Pariss

cit Les Muguets: Vinz, who is Jewish, Hubert, who is Black, and Said, who is Arabic. They

have no jobs, few prospects, and no productive way to spend their time. One day, a street riot

breaks out after police seriously injure an Arab young man. We watch the three friends duringthe day that follows the riot. We first see the social issues of the life in a French cit, then the

night that the three friends spend out, and, eventually, the dramatic ending.

La Haine is a black and white movie that looks like a documentary. It gathers and shows the

hate of the police, of a society that does not allow integration, of the French social system, of

the power, and of the social gap. The hate is a vicious circle created by the mutual disrespect,

violence, indifference and incomprehension between people living inside and outside the cit,

the youth and the police, and the social classes.

1. Integration/assimilation: something refused to three main characters (physical, emotional,psychological detachment):

a. anti-immigration sentiment

b. lack of religious, racial respectc. racism (black, blanc, beur)

2. How the film defines a Stranger in the French ghettoized context?a. identity crisis within characters

b. relationship between the youth and the police

3. Symbolism behind language (argument, all about not understanding the Other): motivations

for cultural isolation: lack of inquiry or willingness to explore: indifference towards the Other

(beggars, police, and trio):

a. the impossibility of communicating with others

b. largot des jeunes (de banlieue et autres aussi)

c. le quartier

Specific Clips:

Possible scenes: (to come)

Tie-in Theories:

Bennett: denial from non-cit and cit individuals-looking at cultures and subcultures

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-build their own culture, behavior, same enemy

Timeline:

27 octobre 2005 : 2 jeunes morts dans des circonstances suspectes aprs un contrle de police Clichy sous Bois (trouvs dansun transformateur lectrique).

28 octobre: des meutiers tirent balles relles sur un vhicule des CRS Clichy-sous-Bois.

29 octobre : Marche silencieuse Clichy-sous-bois en mmoire des deux jeunes.

30 octobre: une grenade lacrymogne explose devant la mosque de Clichy-sous-Bois,

dclenchant la colre des habitants.

2 novembre: Jacques Chirac dclare pendant le conseil des ministres: Il faut que les esprits

sapaisent. Il ne peut pas exister de

zone de non-droit en Rpublique.

4 novembre: le Premier ministre Dominique de Villepin reoit une quinzaine de jeunes des

zones urbaines sensibles pour un

change sur la situation dans les quartiers.6 novembre: premire dclaration publique de Jacques Chirac depuis le dbut des violences.

8 novembre: le gouvernement prend le dcret instituant ltat durgence dans les banlieues,

afin de permettre dappliquer desmesures de couvre-feu (loi du 3 avril 1955).

15 novembre: Dominique de Villepin se rend la Cit des 3.000, Aulnay-sous-Bois ; cestson premier dplacement en banlieue

depuis le dbut des violences.A partir du 16 novembre 2005: la tendance lapaisement se confirme.

1er dcembre: Dominique de Villepin prsente un plan pour lgalit des chances avecnotamment un contrat de responsabilit

parentale, un renforcement des aides aux zones dducation prioritaire (ZEP), louverture

tous les jeunes des quartiers

sensibles du contrat jeune en entreprise.

2 janvier 2006: Jacques Chirac dcide de lever ltat durgence.

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