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13 Cards in this Set
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What is UNE BAVURE?
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A term used in the media to describe unjustified persecution by police.
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In 81, how many bavures were there?
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300
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Who was the director of La Haine and how old was he?
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Kassovits, 25.
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How does La Haine start?
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By showing footage of real riots in Paris.
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Who are the three main characters in La Haine and what do they represent?
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*Said, he has opinions inbetween Vince and Hubert, he is the joker of the group.
*Hubert wants to get out of his situation by being a good boxer, he says that "la haine attire la haine" *Vince is the most passionate and violent, white jew, very concerned with his own image. Arab, black, and hew respectively. |
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How are the suburbs represented in La Haine?
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Boredom, poor, nothing to do, everyone knows each other even the police, there are no restorants.
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What are Vince's plans after he finds the gun? What happens?
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He wants to kill a policeman if the guy that they know in the hospital dies. He has the chance but doesn't take it, so he gives the gun to Hubert.
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What are examples of american influence in La Haine?
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He wants to be like the guy in Taxi Driver, music.
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How does La Hiane end?
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A police officer is holding Vinz up against a car and accidentally shoots him. Then you see Hubert and hear a shot but don't know what happens.
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What is the opening line to La Haine? The last line?
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Jusqu'ici tout ca bein. It's about a society in free fall.
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What are some themes of Kassovits's work?
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New wave cinema, the absurdity of existence, inspired by american films, documentary style,
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Summarise the Shantytown kid
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Tells about his childhood in the bad parts of town where the Maghreb kids live. He is the smart kid at school. He is offered a job that his mom wants him to take, but his father tells him to stay in school. When he meets some Jewish kids he is embarrassed of being Arab. He feels the pressure to decide between being French and being Arab. A teacher showed him that he can be both. Asks if we are really that different, we all live, breathe, and are hurt, but are fundamentally the same. Faced with negatives of his arab classmates, and the racism of some of his French peers.
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Summarize Femmes d'Algiers
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Even though Algeria has been liberated, the women are still persecuted by the new regime because they are not men. She wrote it in French because she sees Arabic as a language of men who have imposed Islamic rules on women. No Exit is one of the stories where a neighbor boy dies and the 25 year old girl next door serves her father supper. Some people come over to see her with an offer of marriage. Her mother said that an honorable woman doesn’t live outside her home. Talks about the blood on Algerian sand that has been poured out for it’s freedom. Sister tells her to stop thinking so much. She doesn’t want to get married because she says she sees the future completely black before her eyes. But she gets set up anyway. “There is no exile for a man of God, there are only trials.” The true exiles are the ones who keep bumping into the walls of the past.
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