La Haine: SCENE 1: - lower : seen as low in the social heirachy - surrounded by bars : viewed as criminal, trapped - only filmed when they become aggressive -There is a high angle and low angle shot (180 degree) suggesting this is a broken frame. It suggests how the boys are looked down upon by the news crew and due to the position of the rail showing the binary between them. Furthermore, it conveys how the main characters are caged in and due to their violent and defensive attitude it makes them appear to be wild animals and need to be locked in a cage. (Suggesting that people from different backgrounds belong in poverty compared to the rest of the French - linking in with context) -The close up of the needle on the floor by Hubert's feet is an iconography associated with crime. -There is irony employed "We're the Future" - inside the estate there is no future. Mise en scene Hospital setting Filled with photographers standing opposite the thr...
Compare the attitudes to poverty conveyed in the films you have studied for this topic. La Haine: Attitudes towards poverty, are represented in many different ways throughout the films i have studied. For example in La Haine, Saïd and Vinz go to Hubert's gym to see it has been burnt down by rioters and yet we see Hubert using a punching bag and making no obvious steps toward fixing his gym. This portrays them as having no motivation or money to fix hings in their lives, representing their poverty and also referencing the context of the riots going on in France in the 1990's. The beginning scene of La Haine is filmed from a low angle shouting at Vinz's sister surrounded by high rise flats. This not only shows us that Saïd doesn't care about disrupting others with his noise but the mise-en-scene visually represents how the group (Saïd, Vinz and Hubert) are trapped and looked down upon due to where they live, this is shown by Saïd being surrounded by these flats and the...
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