A French film, "La Haine" follows three inner-city youths over the course of a single day.
They buy drugs, they acquire a gun, they get hassled by the police, they argue, they steal. Recently, a guy from the neighborhood was beaten up by the cops so bad that he may die in the hospital. One of the guys says that if that happens, he may kill a cop in retaliation.
It's gritty, it's dirty, it's in your face, it's "street". You know what this movie is like? It's a French version of a Spike Lee film. It's extremely-well acted with characters that are completely believable and yet I don't care for them because they're all morons in different ways. Perhaps they serve as characters that I should look down on and feel sorry for. Unlikely, but conceivable. But over the course of an hour and a half or two hours, at some point, that's not entertainment anymore. The reason they're miserable isn't due to their circumstances or origins... it's because they're fools. They deserve their circumstances.
This movie is from the 90s so it's allowed to be dated. And like I said, it's very similar to a Spike Lee film and Spike Lee is an acclaimed director - so perhaps it deserves some acclaim. But not from me. Real talk.
5/10.
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