La Haine

The idea of our film is based over the course of a day and follows the main character through his day, as he goes through various different stages. By the end of the day the character has been through a lot of grief and has changed dramatically, that is something that is done very well within the French classic la Haine.

Shot in cinema verité style, this film follows a day in the life of three aimless and violence-prone young men who hail from the same decaying housing project in Paris. Vinz, who is Jewish, is the angriest and the least intelligent of the three. North African Said is calmer, but is the most despairing about his future. Hubert is Black, and the most mature, channeling his rage through boxing. Although the trio seethes with fury over the arrest and senseless beating of an Arab friend, each manages to keep the other in check. But that changes after Vinz finds a loaded gun -- and the trio becomes entangled with the police, and later a group of skinheads. The film has a shocking and dark ending with the death of lead character Vinz and then the downfall of the most stable character Hubert as he murders the cop who filled Vinz.

The way that this film builds tension perfectly through out the film until the dramatic climax, is something that is very powerful and i would love to incorporate in our film, it will work nicely in our film as it also follows a character over a dramatic day in his life.