The film depicts their rage against the police whom they see as oppressors. Vinz (Vincent Cassel), is a working class Jew Hubert (Hubert Kounde), the most intelligent and self-reflective of the three, is an African boxer and Said (Said Taghmaoui), an Arab from North Africa is younger but just as embittered. This is not the Paris of travel brochures or films like Amelie, but a desolate urban landscape, harsh and grim with housing projects that look as if they could be in any big city in the world. Three friends from different ethnic backgrounds live in the Bluebell housing projects on the outskirts of Paris. Although drug dealing, urban decay, and police brutality have been shown in films before, rarely have they had the sense of vitality and urgency shown in La Haine. Reminiscent of Costas-Gavras' film Z with its rapid-fire dialogue and staccato rhythms, La Haine (Hate) directed by 28 year-old Mathieu Kassovitz, is a passionate look at racial tensions at a Paris housing project.
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