La Haine

i watched this, def good & i want the "ELVIS SHOT JFK" tshirt
the very end is a misstep/poor decision imo tho & screams immaturity

saw this at the cinema last night hot on the heels of Akira the week before. two hallowed films from my youth which i hadn't seen since my early twenties.

I expected Akira to have felt a lot 'safer' by today's standards, but no it's just as bonkers, violent, confusing and beautiful as I remembered.
By turns, La Haine was a lot less violent and a lot lot funnier than I remembered. There were parts that had me creasing-up in the cinema, not least the old Eastern European man in the toilet and Sayid's reaction to his story.

La Haine is also beautifully shot. I seem to remember it being billed as being confrontational and controversial at the time; a thuggish film about thuggery, which really it isn't.

I also liked Hubert's mother's prosaic reaction to his slightly hammy gushing about needing to get out of the projects.

just saw this tonight. in a nice little rhyme with doglatin's posts, the prince charles is also showing akira in 4k.

it's a masterpiece obv. people must have been absolutely blown away in 1995. and it still feels so real, so current. (kind of :/ to realise that if it were set in the current day, in those shots of the boys being bored they'd all be staring at their phones.)

there feels like a direct line to the nouvelle vague with the (absolutely incredible) black and white photography, the kineticism, the focus on low-level criminals, the appearance of a gun and wondering what will happen when it goes off. but frankly it goes so far beyond those movies in the performances, and the grounding in a lived social milieu. nouvelle vague feels at times to me like an escape, into americanism, into jazz, into the future. in this movie the future is a bad joke.