A run-in with sadistic plainclothes police, who arrest Saïd and Hubert while Vinz flees. They then go to see Asterix, an avid cocaine user who owes Saïd money, leading to a violent confrontation as he appears to try to force Vinz to play Russian roulette (the gun is secretly unloaded). In a public restroom, a Gulag survivor tells them of a friend who refused to relieve himself in public and subsequently froze to death, puzzling the three as to the meaning of the story. They take a train to Paris, where their responses to both benign and malicious Parisians cause several situations to escalate to dangerous hostility.

A confrontation with the police ensues, and the group narrowly escapes after Vinz nearly shoots a riot officer. They reunite at another gathering in the banlieue, but the situation quickly turns chaotic when Abdel's brother attempts to kill a police officer in revenge. Saïd accompanies Vinz, while Hubert briefly returns to his home. He is later released with the help of a familiar police officer.įollowing a disagreement between Vinz and Hubert about their perspectives on policing and violence, the two men part ways. Saïd is arrested after their aggressive refusal to leave. The three go to see Abdel in the hospital, but are turned away by the police. Although Hubert disapproves, Vinz secretly takes the gun with him. 44 Magnum revolver lost in the riot, and plans to use it to kill a police officer if Abdel dies. After the police break a rooftop gathering and the three sit idly on a playground, Vinz reveals to the other two that he has found the. The three go through an aimless daily routine, frequently finding themselves under police scrutiny. Saïd is a young North African Muslim who plays a mediating role between Vinz and Hubert. Hubert is an Afro-French boxer and small-time drug dealer who yearns to leave the banlieue for a better life and refuses to provoke the police, but whose boxing gymnasium was burned down in the riots.

Vinz is a young Jewish man with an aggressive temperament who wishes to avenge Abdel, has a blanket condemnation of all police officers, and secretly reenacts Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver in the bathroom mirror. The film depicts approximately twenty consecutive hours in the lives of three friends of Abdel, all young men from immigrant families, in the aftermath of the riot. In the ensuing riots the local police station is besieged, and a police officer loses his revolver. A local man, Abdel Ichaha, is in intensive care having been gravely injured in police custody. La Haine opens with a montage of news footage of urban riots in a banlieue in the commune of Chanteloup-les-Vignes near Paris.

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