The most striking metaphor of the film is the billboards on the walls that write “Le Monde est a vous” (“World is yours”). Because ghetto police are not like the police you see in the city… Mathieu Kassovitz destroys the “sweet French police” perception all of a sudden. At this moment Hubert says “Well, who will protect us from the police?”. A policeman from the ghetto who knows the triple pays Sayid’s bail and gets him out but when Vinz, Hubert and the policeman are going to the police station, the policeman says that all these are for protecting them. At this time the triple argues with the police as they do not let them visit Abdel and Sayid is taken into custody. Maybe one of the first breaking points of the film happens. He will solve his ignorance with only violence. Vinz is decisive that if Abel dies he will kill a policeman. Now that gun is a problem and the expectation of the audience would be about when that gun would explode. We realize that the day does not go as usual when Vinz confesses that he has the gun the policeman lost and puts it on his belt. These three friends are furious for what happened to Abdel but they go on with their daily life, they keep doing the things they used to do as always. During this chaos one of the policemen lost his gun. During the protest Abdel who is a very close friend of these three friends is beaten almost to death and hospitalized. The subject of the film is the following day of a protest that took place in the ghetto.
He is the most concrete example of how being Muslim is regarded and perceived in France. Sayid is Muslim and the most problematic of all. He is black, more educated than the others but nobody cares for the diploma so he earns his life by selling marijuana. Hubert is maybe the most influential character of the film.
Mathieu Kassovitz demolishes the common perception of Jews being rich and noble with this character. They are one train trip away from the glittering life of France however they are stuck in ghetto with people flinging in their faces that they do not belong there and day by day they become tough and get back on the streets. They are before us with all their flaws as in being in between. Sayid, Hubert and Vinz are very close friends. Film starts with the Algerian immigrant Muslim Sayid and ends with Sayid. La Haine a brave street story filmed by Mathieu Kassovitz as who should say “There is either black or white in the ghetto life”.
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