SSC Film Studies

How far do the films you have studied for this topic challenge the audience, generating debate about the worlds they represent?

The opening scene of La Haine begins with a riot montage that took place over a ten-year period; straightaway this challenges the audience’s typical ideology of French society. The fact that the director uses real life footage gives the audience a more significant effect as he try’s to manipulate us in order for us to take on the message more, how to show how non- French people are targeted not just due to their race but also because of their class. People usually associate French society with love, romance, and culture. As with the film Amelie that will looked at in contrast to this film we see that the people are mostly white, it is very French not may other religions are seen, the director in this film has also digital removed any graffiti that can bee seen throughout the scenes; this therefore gives the audience a false idea of what French culture is actually like. Meanwhile La Haine gives us a more realistic view of what French society is like but because the audience isn’t use to this it challenges our ideologies.