Characters and Narrative

LA HAINE CHARACTERS:

• Vincent Cassel - Vinz
• Said Taghmaoui - Said
• Hubert Kounde - Hubert

Vinz; 

Vinz is a blond haired, blue eyed Jew, who has a skin 

head, which defies the Jewish stereotype. This is shown as, Vinz resists the stereotype shown in movies, as he listens to hip hop and enjoys break-dancing, whilst constantly looking tough and getting into fights.

He is filled with rage and hatred, he tries to keep up his 'gangster image' and carries around a gun and poses with it to do so.

The idea that Vinz is filled with hatred is given context because of the events happening in Paris at the time, even the film's name 'La Haine' means Hatred. A lot of tension had been brewing in France at the time because of the influx of immigrants from the former and current French colonies. Multiculturalism wasn't accepted and led to violence and riots, many of the immigrants had taken residence in the banlieues, which caused all of these different cultures to mingle, which is shown, when Vinz, a Jew, is best friends with Said and Hubert, a Muslim and a black Afro-french boxer and small time drug dealer.