Reflection to “La Haine”

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Reflection to “La Haine” The title “La Haine” is derived from Hubert’s saying “Hate breeds hatred,” and as you can see with the movie, it is a truth. Hubert seemed to be the most reflective and philosophical of the three friends despite being a drug user/ dealer. As far as the sequence of events goes, it is a tragedy that the friends are set upon the path that they are, and almost inevitable for them to reach the end that they did. However, I can understand why these kids (and they were for the most part still kids) are so angry; when they were at the park there were children that hung out with the three (Vinz, Hubert and Said). The guy in the apartment complex pulled out his speakers and played a song that was extremely derisive of the police. However, what Vinz failed to recognize is that there a difference between individuals; the police in the hospital were there to protect their injured friend Abdel (who later died), while there were corrupt, abusive police in the streets as well. What is so poignant about Hubert’s quote “Hate breeds hate” is that is true: as the movie progresses, we see the escalation of force and tension rise for the three. Ultimately there is a confrontation between the police and the ‘skinheads’ and the three main characters. Later on, the ‘skinheads’ catch up to Hubert and Said and beat them up; this is the moment of reckoning and Vinz arrives to find that he is not as cold-blooded or tough as he originally thought. He cannot kill the ‘skinhead,’ and killing people is not as cool as it seemed (he practiced being a gangster in the mirror in the beginning of the movie). It seems that he has finally learned his lesson when he gives the gun to Hubert, but as we seen, the train has already started rolling, and there is no way to stop it. The posturing and violence that we saw before, while intense and real, were never as definitive as that
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