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Banlieue 13

- Themes Remade from “The Matrix”

In 2010, social issues have overwhelmed the poorer rural areas of Paris; particularly Banlieue 13, normally alluded to as B13: a ghetto with a populace of nearly two million. Not able to control B13, the government powers built a high divider wall with barbed wire on top around the whole region, constraining the occupants inside to make up a living without adequate education, fitting utilities or police insurance behind the regulation wall. The Police created checkpoints to prevent anyone from going in or out the barrier. After three years, this district was made up of gangs competing to rule the region and assume dominion over the land. Vicky (David Debutante) is a contender of such gangs (Orndorf, 2007).

The start of the film delineates Vicky washing a case brimming with drugs down the channel, then getting away from the posse who now gather the drugs. The group's pioneer, Grace, seizes Vicky’s sister Lola in his quest to seek retaliation. Vicky comes in hard and rescues his sister and manages to take Grace to the police headquarters. However, Grace's gang is able to harass the police parade at the headquarters making the police to capture Vicky and let Grace leave with Lola, expressing that they're leaving the area.

After six months in Paris, Damien - a covert cop - finishes a fruitful operation at a club, and is promptly given another task: Grace's posse has taken a bomb from an atomic transport vehicle and inadvertently initiated it, giving it 24 hours prior to it destroying the whole district into ashes. Damien, acting like a detainee, must invade the area and incapacitate the bomb; he groups up with Vicky to do as such (McAllister, 2005). Vicky, being in the ghetto for long, quickly sees through Damien's undercover act and the two form a team with the aim to save Vicky's sister too from Grace. The pair makes a breakthrough plan on how to enter into hiding base hence they decide to surrender to Grace keeping in mind the end goal to get entrance to his base. During their quest, they discover the bomb has been set up on a rocket launcher meant to bomb Paris and Lola inhumanly handcuffed onto the launcher. Grace requests a high payment to deactivate the bomb; the administration can't, yet after Damien gives them Grace's financial balance codes, they deplete his trusts.

Damien and Vicky break. The bank accounts of the leader Grace become dry and he remains poor without enough finances to pay his gang members. The realization that he won’t be able to pay them shocks the gane, and to make things worse, Grace makes a stupid move to anger them; in turn,they shower bullets on him (McAllister, 2005). The significantly more altruistic K2 assumes control and permits Damien and Vicky to go forward and stop the deadly bomb.

Subsequent to battling their way to the building, Damien calls his contact to get the deactivation code, yet in the wake of perceiving certain images in the code, Vicky finds that the administration has set them up and the code will really explode the bomb as opposed to deactivating it. This created a grave misunderstanding between the two partners which leads them to engage in a bloody battle. Due to their equality in expertise in Marshall Arts, both characters are intertwined in fists and no one of them is able to win the other. Lola has the capacity and courage to control Damien in support of her brother sufficiently long for the clock on the bomb to run out. The bomb does not go off hence Vicky was right in his decision and speculations. This surprises Damien and greatly makes him to regret ever believing the bigger heads above him (Orndorf, 2007). The pair hesitantly moves back to the administration building with the bomb and threatens to enter the code in their faces which forces the government agent to accept that he is guilty to have planned to bomb the B13 district and get rid of all the occupants and the area as a whole.

This confession was caught on camera and broadcasting it on national television. Before long, the government plans to bring down the walls dividing and restricting access to the B13 district and to enhance construction of schools and provide police to the region to maintain law and order and bring a drastic end to the gangs and bandits in the district. Vicky and Damien leave as companions, and Lola kisses Damien to urge him to visit B13 in the near future. This action packed movie depicts the kind of social injustices that are committed by the government officials who abuse their powers to bring about starvation, poor education, and poverty and strive in the society to fulfill their greedy mentality and selfish desires (Orndorf, 2007).

Work Cited

McAllister, M. (2005, 12 8). Futuremovies.co.uk. Retrieved 6 2015, from Futuremovies.co.uk: http://www.futuremovies.co.uk

Orndorf, B. (2007, April 7). FilmJerk.com. Retrieved 7 2015, from http://www.filmjerk.com

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