Thursday, 17 September 2015

La Haine Question

What is the importance of mise-en-scene and/or sound in creating meaning and generating response in the films you have studied?

each scene of "La Haine"  has several meanings that the mies-en-scene or sound. the final scene that sees one or two of our characters removed (Hubert's fate like several moments in the film are completely unexplained) and during this scene we see a large portrait painting of Charles Baudelaire who once said "The world only goes round by misunderstanding" and this scene, to me is a direct result of several misunderstandings throughout the film that brings our characters (Vinz, Said and hubert) to this point where the police have them against the car. the gun goes off by mistake and once again a misunderstanding leads to the final stand off between hubert and the cop that killed vinz, and more importantly it all takes place underneath this painting and from the shot behind Hubert shows that the whole scene is contained in a little area which says to me that the whole idea is being proved almost scientifically right in front of Baudelaire who looks down on them from above. and this idea perhaps extends out towards the entire film as one of the first shots is of the same portrait and one of the last ones is and so this is perhaps saying that the final scene has been destined from the start as most of the happenstances during the film are just misunderstandings.

another scene that uses miss-en-scene to printout more meaning to a scene is when Vinz daydreams about shooting the traffic officer. both sides are shown to have a higher meaning as behind vinz there is a light ring which almost forms a halo above his head showing that he is possibly in the right however the ring is fractured and tome that seems to say that maybe this is the right thing to do but its not ever going to be the 100% right thing. on the cops side a window behind them has a massive cross on it which comes before an empty and desolate store which again to me seems to point out that the cops are in the wrong for the death of Abdul and so need to be removed or punished however when vinz does dream shoot one of them he flies back (something which is a major cliche in american movies) into the cross and window shattering both which seems to be that the illusion has been broken, the police themselves are not to blame as a whole and instead its just the actions of one man and so by killing this possibly innocent man isn't the right thing and so with the smashing of the glass von snaps out of it and then when hubert gets annoyed within for thinking about it and begins to yell and complain vinz isn't as quick to mouth off and defend himself instead looking as if he has just snapped out of a stupor.

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