La Haine

This has me torn. It’s a gorgeously shot and visually stunning film that felt rich and full even though it’s in b&w. The scenes and the story was too real and it’s a part that i adored. However it was really hard for me to empathise with the characters for most of the film, which really put me off and made me loose the plot a couple of times. After I sat with it a little, I see and understand that they are all products of a system that oppresses people like them, and seeing the film as a realistic day in their lives makes it much better. The last 20 minutes really showed some development in their characters and helped me see their flawed characters as they were, built this way by that system.——————The thing that really got me was “So far so good… How you fall doesn’t matter. It’s how you land”  - It’s them fighting a system that’s already against them, that pushes them to fall while their fate is already determined. It’s a cycle.