I am encouraging the reader to understand Vinz.

To be entirely clear, I am not encouraging the reader to become Vinz. A conversation on hate and its functioning. La Haine is underrated because it is trying to spark a conversation that seems to have been lost in the past few years. Vinz is important for us to understand a part of society that a lot of us, a lot of Huberts, are trying to shut off. Being as flawed as he is, he still opens up to our perception a part of society that is swept under the rug of propaganda, vote banks and sympathy garnering. Vinz would be a lot of us if a lot of us still had that spark of optimism. What La Haine truly teaches us is to understand these characters instead of dismissing them as being in a phase fuelled by adolescence and teen age. These are people who have an idea for a society and they have a drive to make the place they live in a little bit better.

These are not kids who have been overly influenced by YouTube, or certain musical artists or stand up comedians. What’s more important, especially for our country, is to understand characters such as Vinz.

Hubert is a lot of us in a third-world country such as India. A guy who is trying to get out of a society based on discrimination against attributes attached to you since birth. Saïd is that other friend who is honestly trying to get by and does not like to think a lot about what is going on around him.Īnd Hubert is me. Vinz is that friend of mine who has gone through a certain level of oppression, as he has seen the society at its rawest, and is out for revenge. In a lot of ways, the three characters represent a lot of people around me. One very simple reason: it is more relevant now than it ever was and it’s not being talked about enough. Now that we are caught up with the basic essence of the film and the three protagonists, let me come to why I think this movie deserves more recognition and why it is underrated. So far, so good.’ That is us in the ghetto. We follow the three guys as they go through their day until the very end, when you realise what the following saying means: “Ever heard the story of the monk who jumped off a skyscraper? As he passed each floor, he told himself, ‘So far, so good. Hubert wants to get away from the tyranny of the ghetto, from the everyday politics of the place he wants something he truly feels he deserves: a normal functioning life that is not based upon the colour of his skin. Saïd is the guy who seems as if he has a lot to prove, not to anyone else, but to himself. Vinz is the anti-system and anti-authority character. The three main characters are Vinz, Saïd and Hubert. On screen, La Haine is a social commentary that is brilliantly achieved through the three young men as they interact with their surroundings and without ever really having to say a lot, it says a lot. On paper, the French film La Haine (1995), or ‘Hate’, is a movie about three young men and a day in their life.

La haine so far so good