This document provides guidance and questions for students to analyze the film "La Haine" (1995, dir. Mathieu Kassovitz). It begins with entrance questions about what a character is doing in a mirror scene and how that compares to characters in another work. The document then provides learning objectives for students to re-cap prior knowledge, develop understanding of a final exam text, and analyze two key scenes. It suggests three themes represented in the film - disillusioned youth, prejudice, neglect & poverty. Students are instructed to analyze example scenes showing these themes. The document concludes with homework assignments to complete a character analysis and revision questions.

1. Entrance Activity
WHAT is Vinz ‘reproducing’ in the mirror?
HOW does this compare to Marco and Ciro in Gomorrah?
WHY is Vinz doing this?

2. Feedback

3. FM4:
Varieties of Film Experience – Issues and Debates
Title:
‘La Haine’ (1995 – Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz)
Date: Thursday 14th
January 2016

4. Why?
Aims & Objectives
• YOU WILL re-cap prior
learning.
• YOU WILL develop your
understating of the FINAL
Brief Text you should refer
to in the Exam.
• YOU WILL analyse x2 Key
Scenes that SHOULD be
referred to specifically.
• Review the learning.
AO1
Demonstrate knowledge and
understanding of film as an
audio-visual form of creative
expression together and
AO2
Apply knowledge and
understanding, including
some of the common critical
approaches that characterise
the subject, when exploring
and analysing films.

5. Do you agree?

6. ‘It is vital to understand the social and political context
of films.’
How far do you agree with this in relation to the films
you have studied for this topic?
Key term: Zeitgeist - 1995
• Do the themes & issues of this text still reverberate today?

7. How far do the films you have studied for this topic use
cinematic techniques to manipulate a particular
audience response?
YOU MUST analyse the Cinematography (Angles and movement), Editing and Sound
in the scene to establish HOW the a response is manipulated from the spectator.
Extension – Narrative – Is there a ‘resolution’ (Syd Field) to this story?

8. Idle youth,
Subservient to everything,
I have frittered away my life
Through gentleness.
Ah! may the time come
When hearts will meet!
“Les Poètes de sept ans”
Arthur Rimbaud
Unemployed and doing nothing all day
Less important than anything else

9. Death is the mystic
granary of God;
The poor man's purse;
his fatherland of yore;
The Gate that opens
into heavens un trod! Symbolism –
Are the 3 protagonists about to venture into
an unknown land/future?

10. FM4 – Section A
YOU MUST get this out
to help you with the
Key Scene Analysis.

11. 1) Disillusioned Youth
2) Prejudice
3) Neglect & Poverty
Using your exercise books, YOU MUST analyse an example (x1 scene)
where these themes are represented to the spectator.
YOU SHOULD note down Film Language examples – Verbal, Non-
Verbal and Technical Codes – that help establish these themes to the
spectator.
Extension – YOU COULD compare HOW these themes are
represented in the other texts we have studied.
Hubert discussing with his Mother
how he wants to leave the Estate
and how “The World is Yours”
frustrates him later on in the text.
Art Gallery scene, Feelings towards the police
Setting, lack of money/material
possessions, Drugs and other criminal
iconography

12. Suggested scenes
1) Disillusioned Youth
2) Prejudice
3) Neglect & Poverty
1)
11 mins
2)
1 hour 3 mins 30 secs

13. Suggested scenes
1) Disillusioned Youth
2) Prejudice
3) Neglect & Poverty
3)
23 mins

14. What have you learnt?

15. What have you learnt?
• EVALUATE What themes and/or characters from the text convey how the text
represents a “difficult, urban environment”?
2 minutes

16. Homework
• Complete a Character Analysis of ONE of the
Main Protagonists from the text (1 Page) –
What character role do they conform to?
(Propp)
• Go to the FM4 – Section A page to complete
some revision.
Due: Monday 18th
January – Period 5