La Haine

This film reflects the brutal reality of inequality in Paris. Three features of the film help to accomplish this with powerful results: 1) It was filmed in Black in White with actual footage of riots in the opening credits; 2) It followed three angry young males who represented the three leading ethnic groups in the banliues; and, 3) It was based on a single day (and night).   Another strength to the overall message of the film was the ways in which the director left many parts of it ambiguous or open to interpretation. Two parts that exemplify this were the story of Grunwalski on the train to Siberia that the old man told to Said, Vinz, and Hubert in the bathroom and the Cow that Vinz saw. We already unpacked the first a bit. What do you think of the cow?  Is it perhaps an omen that something bad is going to happen to Vinz? What was the point of it?