This was my second time watching the film after a few years and La Haine has lost none of its initial power! I had first discovered it through The Criterion Collection. Hate (English translation) shows the faces in a struggle and humanizes groups of people that are often downgraded to cultural stereotypes. I chose La Haine (1995) – a crime drama about disenfranchised youth living in housing projects outside Paris, France – because it assaults the viewer with the harsh reality of the streets: crime, poverty, racism and police brutality. The Ferguson, Missouri shooting and “Je suis Charlie”, have given me a reason to revisit a particular film and revaluate it with more contemporary sensibilities. I can see what it feels like to be a member of a different gender, a different race, a different economic class, to live in a different time, to have a different belief. When I go to a great movie I can live somebody else’s life for a while. Movies are the most powerful empathy machine in all the arts.
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