La Haine

(, ; released in the United States as Hate) is a 1995 French social thriller film written, co-edited, and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. Starring Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé and Saïd Taghmaoui, the film chronicles a day and night in the lives of three friends from a poor immigrant neighbourhood in the suburbs of Paris. The title derives from a line spoken by one of them, Hubert: "", "hatred breeds hatred". Kassovitz was awarded the Best Director prize at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. Plot opens with a montage of news footage depicting urban riots in a in the commune of near Paris. In the aftermath of the riots, a local man named is gravely injured in police custody and is in intensive care. The riots escalate, leading to a siege of the local police station and the loss of a police officer's revolver. The film follows the lives of three friends of Abdel, who are all young men from immigrant families, over approximately twenty consecutive hours. Vinz, a young Jewish man with an aggressive temperament, seeks revenge for Abdel's condition. He harbors a deep hatred for all police officers and secretly emulates Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver in front of his bathroom mirror. , an Afro-French boxer and small-time drug dealer, aspires to escape the and create a better life for himself. However, his boxing gymnasium was destroyed in the riots. , a young North African Muslim, acts as a mediator between Vinz and . The three friends lead a directionless daily routine and frequently find themselves under police surveillance. After a rooftop gathering which is broken up by the police, Vinz reveals that he has discovered the .44 Magnum revolver lost during the riot. He plans to use it to kill a police officer if Abdel dies. While disapproves, Vinz secretly takes the gun with him. They visit Abdel in the hospital but are turned away by the police. is arrested after they aggressively refuse to leave, but he is later released with the assistance of a familiar police officer.