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Comparison Of Kiffe Hane And La Haine By Faiza Guene

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Immigrants live a had life of uprooting one’s life by choice or necessity to relocate to another country in hopes of a better life, in France these immigrants have not been welcomed with open arms, depictions of these separations and brutality toward immigrants in France are shown in Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow by Faiza Guene about an immigrant teen from Morocco, and the movie La Haine by Mathieu Kassovitz about minority teens rioting against racial injustice by the police. These two stories reveal the police brutality and terrible situations these immigrant and minority groups face in France and how it has shaped their outlooks on life to be this dead-end cycle of suffering and failure. I feel Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow depicts a better more …show more content…

We see Doria see her life laid out before her as a teen she says, “trouble is the one who leads me down the aisle is supposed to be my asshole father”. It is this kind of example that shows how she envisions her life therefore giving reason as to why she acts like it all doesn’t matter, and the system is broken because for her its not easy it is broken and an all to common thing in her world to see broken families and unfulfilled potential for good. La Haine never gives us this all we see are teens disrespecting authority like Vincent in the beginning is very rude and yell at his grandmother like she’s garbage it shows no reason to have sympathy or to support their hard lives by them making it worse. Second, we see La Haine is not even really telling us individual stories but more a broad view of the struggle as a minority in France against police brutality. This is an important problem for immigrants and minorities of France and a real issue but La Haine only shows the struggles of the projects without explaining why, and shows rioting and brutality, but not how they got to that point that is where Kiffe Kiffe excels because it does explain how and why things happen. Plus, La Haine contradicts itself several times confusing the narrative, once when the cop gets the Said out of the jail and lets them go only to be shot? This makes not sense, then when

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