la haine city of god stylised question

The two films I have studied for this topic are very different in the way they are stylized and how it changes the meaning of the film. By stylizing films in certain ways a filmmaker can create a particular meaning or feeling they want to convey through the film. Both La Haine and City of God do this but in very different ways.

La Haine is a film about three young male immigrants, Vinz Said and Hubert, living in the projects of Paris and how the police in France persecute them. It is shot in black and white, which creates a dark, depressing feeling throughout the film as it acts almost like a shadow always lingering over Vinz, Said and Hubert. This is done because the director wants to show how difficult it is for these men in their environment and is attempting to show the audience how depressing and hopeless life in the projects can be. La Haine also has no real narrative structure or story; it is simply a day in the life of immigrants in Paris. I think the director did this because he wanted the film to be a realistic representation of life in the projects and if he were to use a generic narrative structure then it would not seem as real and not have as much an effect on the audience as he wants them to be shocked by the treatment these men receive at the hands of the police and I think that having no real narrative structure is effective in doing exactly that.

City of God however is stylized in a very different way. City of God is the story