How "La Haine" represents conflict and life in Paris suburbs.

In the film "La Haine" there are many scenes and infact the whole storyline itself is based upon conflict and hatred and displayed in the lives of the three main chracters who live on "the estate". This has been achieved through various methods such as cinematography and the narrative.

The film actually has a number of representations throughout it. The main most noticable one is that of  racial integration, the three main characters in the film come from different ethnic backgrounds and/or religions, and is a Black-Blanc-Beur, they all live in the same area and this is a good example of unity through oppression. They are all racist towards each other but not in an offensive way but to bring them closer together as friends.

Another representation is that of the media through out the film, we know that the youth hate the media for publisising them in a negative way through the dialouge used and the attitude towards any sort of authority or anyone being above them. In one scene the three main characters are stood in a park, when a car comes over with a women trying to interview them- although the characters chase the car off, afterwards they are discussing if they will be on the tv in an excited manner, almost as if they wanted the negative publicity.

Cinematography throughout the film is also very unique. There are very many different camera angles used from the toy helicoptor shot to the close up of Vinz when his friend shoots the body guard. These shots are not high budget but still have the same effect. For example the focusing in one point is not through physically using the camera but through sound, Vinz and Hubert are walking down an alley way and a police car passes but the dialouge is quite and the siren is in the main shot.

In the film they used the vertigo effect which gave an effect of the  characters being extremely high up, also maybe this could be representing the fact they are along way from home and this is a "foriegn" land to them.

The narrative in the film also makes it easy to relate to the characters showing their lives etc. It is easy to empathise with the characters, although normally in a film we would classify these people as "bad guys" but they are "all wrong do-ers" and the way the film has been presented to us makes us side with them to some extent.