What role does the media play in La Haine?

The opening of the media sequence uses a quick dissolve edit which visually connotes time passing therefore reinforcing the lack of opportunity in the projects, further presenting the trio as uneducated as well as uncultured. Without schools, jobs and opportunities the director is taking away their human nature, representing them as animals. This shot depicts a large Hippo slide as they are sitting in a park, there is also a high fence which visually connotes a trapped secured area, the trio are sat in an enclosure, the large hippo slide is a reflection of them, they are also animals. As Said is talking a van drives past the park and then returns, inside is a camera man and journalist, neither of them exist the car instead