La Haine
La Haine (1995) is a French film based in the suburbs of France and literally translates into "The Hate" in English. In my personal opinion this film was very good with a well structured main storyline reflecting struggles within that time period and to some extent now, with interesting additional plots based around one of the three main characters.
The characters themselves live on "The Estate" a place ridden with violence and poverty.
The opening scene to the film sets the main storyline for the rest of the film, and displays clear conflict on which is a main theme in the film. The beginning shots display archive footage of riots and other violent scenes from documentaries and news stories, these frame the film in a documentary genre and also gives the viewer an insight into the background of the society the characters live in and the situations they are going to be dealing with.
The sound and editing through-out helps to enhance the viewing experience as well as progress the storyline and to display certain characters thoughts and opinions, for example there is a scene in which the character "Vinz" is shown to fire a gun and to kill a police officer there is then a jump cut to the same position but with the character shaping his hands into a gun and the police officer alive, the other two main characters run behind him and seem angry towards him. This could either be showing the fact that "Vinz" would genuinely like to kill the police officer and the previous scene is inside his mind, displaying his thoughts or to some extent his dreams, as on the estate his reputation is based on rioting and violence, or it could be displaying what his two friends are thinking as they are running to find him, expecting the worse.
The shake and movement of the "helicopter scene" after the DJing scene is not a clean cut moveme
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