Students Name: Asaad Halawnai
Course Title: Intercultural Encounters
Professors Name: Stefania Benini
Date: Spring 2019
Short paper #2
La Haine is a 1995 drama film that directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. The events of the movie took place in France, and it was mainly focused on three friends from different ethnic backgrounds who were trying to face the struggles that faced them in their lives in a city called banlieues in France. (Kassovitz). The three young men were first Vinze a young Jewish who wanted to revenge from the police, and he was always trying to show the aggressive face, and he wished to kill the police, but he could not kill any policeman because he was kind and could not do it. Instead by the end of the movie, he got shot that killed him by police. The second character was Hubert an afro France who was a boxer, and he was selling drugs as well to get the money so he can help his family. Also, he hated the police like Vinze, but the difference between them was that Hubert was able to kill a police officer while Vinze was not. The last character was Said an Arab Maghrib, and he was loving his friends and liked to hang out with them. Also, he was in between the two in which when Vinz and Hubert dispute with each other, he was the one who tried to get them together again. So, the three young men were treated differently from the public, police, and other people as well and that because they had different ethnicity and roots. For example, the police violence against the people who had a different ethnic background, in which the entire movie the police was chasing the three young men especially Hubert and Said because Hubert was black, and Said Muslim. That means the France government or society encouraged the idea of racism and hatred to other ethnic groups, and that affected the people who diaspora from other countries to France with the hope that they would find a better life, but they surprised by the bad treatment from the police and society. Thus, that caused the people with a different ethnicity to face problems like fewer job opportunities which lead them to work as a drug dealer or other bad jobs to get some money to live like what happened with Hurburt. Another struggle that they would face because of the France system was an education in which they did not have the opportunity to get a proper education. Even if they got an education, they would not have the chance to have a proper job. So, the ethnic minority groups in France was facing many struggles from the government, and police that made their life harder and even impossible to live.
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Kassovitz, Mathieu, director. La Haine. Amazon, 1995, www.amazon.com/Haine-English-Subtitled-Vincent-Cassel/dp/B00A5IZABQ/ref=tmm_aiv_title_1?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=.
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