It successfully displays the inhumane ways police treat undocumented immigrants in France, while also showing how individual people can have sympathy for and help immigrants. However, at the end of the day, the film does not give enough of a voice to actual immigrant characters. Giving Idrissa more lines and letting him have more character development would have made Le Havre a much more interesting film and would have given a voice to people who are too often
It successfully displays the inhumane ways police treat undocumented immigrants in France, while also showing how individual people can have sympathy for and help immigrants. However, at the end of the day, the film does not give enough of a voice to actual immigrant characters. Giving Idrissa more lines and letting him have more character development would have made Le Havre a much more interesting film and would have given a voice to people who are too often