La Haine
«Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past
each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: So far so good... so far so
good... so far so good. How you fall doesn't matter. It's how you land!»
What:
La Haine
Who:
Mathieu Kassovitz.
With:
Vincent Cassel. Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui.
When:
1995.
Where:
France.
How:
Black&white, Characters, Live action, Script, Short, Slow.
Why:
How life is in the banlieues of Paris?
Which behaviours can people there have in front of violence of life the slum?
Can they escape from their owns destiny?
What about our society on its way down? And as it falls, are we keeping
telling ourselves:"So far so good.. So far so good.. So far so good.".
And what about the land?