"La Malinche." Slave, interpreter, secretary, mistress, mother of the first "Mexican." her very name still stirs up controversy. Many Mexicans continue to revile the woman called DoГ±a Marina by the Spaniards and La Malinche by the Aztecs, labeling her a traitor and harlot for her role as the alter–ego of Cortes as he conquered Mexico. They ignore that she saved thousands of Indian lives by enabling Cortes to negotiate rather than slaughter. Her ability to communicate also enabled the Spaniards to introduce Christianity and attempt to end human sacrifice and cannibalism. Herself a convert, baptized Marina, she was an eloquent advocate for her new faith. As for thecharges against her, they are in my opinion baseless. So...show more content...
Diaz marveled at her kindness in forgiving them for the injustice she had suffered. The author referred to her only as Marina or DoГ±a Marina.
So whence came the name "La Malinche?" Diaz said that because Marina was always with Cortes, he was called "Malinche" which the author translated to mean "Marina's Captain." Prescott, in the "Conquest of Mexico," (perhaps the best known book on the subject) confirms that Cortes was always addressed as "Malinche" which he translated as Captain and defined "La Malinche" as "the captain's woman." Both definitions confirm that the Indians saw Cortes and his spokesperson as a single unit. They recognized that what they heard were the words of "Malinche," not "La Malinche. " So much for the charge that she was a traitor, instigating the destruction of the Aztec Empire.
As for the charge of "harlotry," it is equally flawed. She was totally loyal to Cortes, a one–man woman, who loved her master. Cortes reciprocated her feelings. Time after time he was offered other women but always refused them. Bernal Diaz frequently commented on the nobility of her character and her concern for her fellow "Mexicans." It is very possible that without her, Cortes would have failed. He himself, in a letter preserved in the Get more content
La Malinche Essay
Book Review La Linea
By Julia Hager
Summary
In her novel La Linea, Ann Jaramillo tells the story of fifteen–year–old Miguel, who leaves his home in Mexico to illegally cross the US–Mexican border. He leaves for California, where his parents and two of his sisters have lived for the past seven years. His parents left first, in order to make money for their children to cross la linea later. Miguel and his younger sister Elena thus live with their grandmother on a rancho in the small Mexican village San Jacinto. On his fifteenth birthday, Miguel receives the letter he has waited for his entire life. A letter from his father tells him to go see Don Clemente, a rich and successful immigrant smuggler. Don Clemente provides Miguel with...show more content... The American dream includes high social mobility and Miguel is looking for this kind of self–fulfillment. As the reader learns in the epilogue, Elena returns to Mexico. She seemed more at home in Mexican culture than Miguel from the beginning: "The tomatoes that had escaped the bug attack were small and shrivelled. [...] I picked one of Elena's tomatoes, growing right next to mine. It was round, red and warm from the sun." (23)
La Linea is a novel about crossing borders. The protagonists literally cross the borders of Guatemala and the US. Crossing the Guatemalan border has no importance, because this border does not carry meaning for them. Only the American border is a symbol of hope, a better future, and reunion with their parents. However, during their strenuous trip through the desert, they do not even notice when they cross the border. "I always thought I'd know exactly the moment I crossed the border. [...] How could I not have felt something?" (96) Miguel is shocked because he confused the physical border with the symbolic border. The novel ends before the reader could see how Miguel and Elena deal with the cultural border they crossed. We only know that they came to the US without knowing anything about the culture. Elena returns to Mexico, probably because she was not happy in her new environment. The siblings also
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La Haine Film Analysis
The marginalization and isolation found in the suburbs of Paris are the results of 20th century postwar Paris failed urban planning. City officials attempted to reconstruct Paris into a higher functioning city based on models of other metropolitan communities; using designs that broke the city into sections. As a result, urban planners created separation between classes, which produced a loss of connection and identity for immigrant families. That class division became a breeding ground for hostile attitudes, stereotypes, and generations of poverty in the suburbs. These increased tensions centered on race and wealth are today modern Paris's most pressing issues. The flawed urban planning that gave birth to the suburbs created what Prime Minister...show more content...
La Haine, is the story of three teenage boys with diverse backgrounds living in suburbs outside of Paris. The young men daily deal with the racial tensions and prejudice caused by the isolating housing projects. The timeline of the movie stars the night after police riots in the suburbs, which leads to the death of a young man the main characters, are close with. In an early scene the protagonist are sitting in the park and are accosted by a television crew and reports. The reports attempt to ignite the boys to capture footage to use; during the altercation one of the main characters yells at them for treat them like animal at the zoo. Him feeling as if these reporters from Paris see him and is friends like zoo animals putting on a show helps highlight the difference levels of respect these people in the suburbs have compared to those in France. "Belonging is a complex issue", said historian Pascal Blanchard in The New York Times article Paris Aims to Embrace Its Estranged Suburbs. As the movie La Haine points out one of the struggles that face young in the suburbs as a result of the suburbs development is the lack of connection to Paris. That lack of identity to their French citizenship and the country itself is dangerous and continuous to grow by generation. Grigny is a suburb of Paris, that Michael Kimmelman author of, Paris Aims to Embrace Its Estranged Suburbs wrote about. A man living in this suburb said that, "Residents of Grigny absorb exclusion into their identity. They think they're outsiders because that's the way they're
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Sources The sources I have used for my paper are based on the migration to Europe and an article about an interview on the cast and director of La Haine. The first source that is mentioned in my paper is the website Info Wars, and the article is called "As Illegal Immigrants Enter Europe, Violence Increases", written by Kurt Nimmo on September 19, 2015. This article is about the violence that have been occurring lately due to the migration to Europe. It offers insight on the present day violence in Europe. The article informs readers about the impact racism has during this migration and the actions such as rioting and rape during the crisis. This article allows my paper to have a compare and contrast element to it because La Haine has events from 1995....show more content...
The article provides information on the opinions of the cast members from the film. This allowed me to get information on the cast member's view point on what is happening today. They think that the events taking place are just the same as 20 years ago. I also found out that the actors in La Haine also took part in real riots back in the 90's. This information made the movie even more realistic because they all experienced what happen before they decided to become part of the movie. Finding out their opinions and experiences helped my paper because it is about the personal experiences of immigrants and how nothing has changed since La Haine was
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La Haine: Source Analysis
1."La Haine", is a French word, which translates to "The Hatred". There is much significance of the title to the entirety of the film. To the characters specifically, it has different meanings. For Hubert, the oldest of the trio, he has a hatred to his "situation". He is living in a place where he can never progress, just remain in the same social class, the same neighborhood, the same financial struggle, the same friends, etc. There is no way to achieve more, and thus his hatred is formed. Hubert hates the fact that immigrants and their families are cast to the banlieues where there are no opportunities. Within the banlieues, thepolice are constantly intervening in their day–to–day lives, robbing them of any freedoms or joys. ...show more content...
3.The themes of desperation, frustration, and loneliness can be seen within the three main characters: Hubert, Vinz, and SaГЇd. There is the sense of desperation with Vinz, he has a desperation for safety and justice and believes the only way to achieve this is by owning a gun. He clings to the gun as if his life depends on it, because to him, it does. The gun is the only safety net he has against the police officers or anybody else that wants to cause him harm. Hubert also experiences desperation because he wants to be better than the banlieue, he wants to be better financially. SaГЇd is also desperate for respect and power and seizes any opportunity in which he can achieve that. For example, the scene with his sister, where he tells her to leave. He clings to that moment, because he has a sense of power. Frustration is also common among all three characters. Hubert feels it the most since whenever he tries to take a step forward, he gets brutally shoved back into his corner of the banlieue. Vinz is frustrated with the injustice everywhere, constantly being attacked by the police and seeing his neighbors and friends killed without anybody batting an eye. SaГЇd's battle with frustration is more juvenile than Hubert and Vinz. His frustration is of feeling small and insignificant and being told what to do constantly. The loneliness can be seen with the Get more content
Analysis Of The Film 'La Haine'
La Haine Review
"La Haine", a 93 minute film regarding about three adolescents(Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde, and Said Taghmaoui) who struggle to cope in a poverty–stricken environment in which hatred and violence are part of everyday life. Even the title "La Haine" which is a French word, translated to 'The Hatred' suggests what the film is about. Based on a true event, "La Haine" is inspired by a real event where a young man was murdered while being questioned at a Parisian Police station. In exploring racism in the Paris suburbs, this film has a direct contrast with more typical French films, such as Amelie(2001) which presents a far more romantic and idyllic vision of French life. The beginning of La 'Haine' shows the beating of a...show more content... This environment reinforces the adolescent's need to construct a masculine identity as Les Banlieues is a dangerous, threatening society to live in so this reinforces the need for a masculine identity because the adolescents feel that they have succeed in certain situations that requires physical strength and fitness and also tend to express themselves verbally and physically. This is shown after the beginning when Vinz has a banter with Said.
Kassovitz develops the identities of Vinz, Said and Hubert in certain scenes. In the scene where Vinz finds a policeman's gun, his normal persona changes as Vinz vows to kill every policeman if the trio's friend,Abdel, dies. This depicts his masculinity as Vinz is subtly pressured to act masculine due to Abdel being in hospital and if Vinz appears to look or become weak then it will appear to Said and Hubert that Vinz is more feminine if Vinz expresses his emotions. This will also, as a whole, ruin Vinz's self–esteem. Another scene where there is another development of Vinz's identity is the scene where the trio confronts an off–duty cop. Vinz seemingly "plays" with the cop with the gun in his hand, suggesting that they should kill the cop. This shows another development in Vinz's masculine identity as Vinz is was challenged by Hubert that he won't kill a cop and this threatens his identity and
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By Gail Kay Haine
The two most common flavors of sweets are undoubtedly chocolate and vanilla. For years, people have been debating between the two attempting to conclude the ultimate flavor. Polls in which the participants choose their favorite flavor are also ways the world has decided which flavor was preferred more. Results show that vanilla had been the most desired, with chocolate following not too far behind. These two flavors have been grown and processed for the masses for centuries. However, out of the two flavors, vanilla has a more complicated natural growing and production process. Chocolate was previously considered a "delectable symbol of luxury, wealth, and power" (Klein) in the 1500s. Using modern technology, it is now easily produced. While...show more content...
When the large pods are harvested, they are picked green. The growers then go through an extensive process to develop the flavor and fragrance characteristic to vanilla. According to the article "Vanilla! It's Everywhere!" written by Gail Kay Haines, "they [the pods] must be 'killed' in hot water, 'sweated' in the sun, dried in the shade, and 'conditioned' in a closed box until they turn brown". Furthermore, the overall development of harvesting natural–grown vanilla and selling it to the market may take nearly five years. On the other hand, though, the creation of chocolate does not take nearly as long as vanilla. The article "The Sweet History of Chocolate" written by Christopher Klein stated that in 1828, a Dutch chemist by the name of Coenraad Johannes van Houten had constructed and invented the Cocoa Press which had the ability of creating chocolate efficient and definitely not a lengthy process like the creation of vanilla. To make the creamy ingredient, "the cocoa press could squeeze the fatty cocoa butter from roasted cacao beans, leaving behind a dry cake that could be pulverized into a fine powder that could be mixed with liquids and other ingredients, poured into molds and solidified into edible, easily digestible chocolate" (Klein). The modern way of growing and producing chocolate has made it affordable for everyone, while growing natural vanilla is considerably a much more expensive
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Life in the suburbs of France is hard; this is shown in the film La Haine and Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow. La Haine is a 1995 French film that was directed by Mathieu Kassovitz which outlines the struggle of living in the French suburbs. La Haine was translated into English means hate. The story revolves around three early twenty–year–olds named Hubert, Vinz, and Sayid from three very different immigrant families. Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow was published in 2004 by Faiza Guene who was 19 at the time it was released. The novel is written from the voice of a young teenager named Doria. Doira lives with her mom in the suburbs of Paris as well. Her story is one of a single parent home with an immigrant family with Algerian descent. Both of these stories share the struggles of the immigrant life, and both of the writers wanted to shine the light on the issue. They both wrote about the immigrant experience so the French public and others around the world would see the struggle and hope to bring change to these conditions. I believe the Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow is more effective in seeking change in the French suburbs due to its point of view, world choice and growth of characters.
Each of these stories is told from a different point of view; La Haine is from the third person point of view which follows the three main characters. Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow is told from the first person point of view from Doria. In La Haine, the film follows around the three main characters like it was the fourth person
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La Malinche went from being interpreted as a chingada to a chingona (a badass). The historical interpretation of Maliche as a weak and fatal historical figure is an example of a patriarchal (machista) way of interpreting history, due to the fact that patriarchy is ingrained in the Chicana/o culture. In opposition to the patriarchy, contemporary Chicana/o authors like Lucha Corpi and Michael Nava through their work challenge it and offer a reinterpretation of previously neglected historical figures. With Gloria's transgression into traditional masculine spaces as a Chicana detective and the reinterpretation of La Malinche, Corpi in Black Widow's Wardrobe makes justice to Malinche for the agency that she was deprived off by past historians, like Octavio Paz's giving her a mislabel of la chingada. In a similar matter, Nava in The Hidden Law with a queer lawyer that steps outside the traditional masculine roles and chooses to stop reproducing the machismo cycle, challenges the patriarchy. With the inclusion of la malinche and Chicano masculinity the authors challenge the patriarchal Chicana/o tradition while reconstructing and recovering history. In Black Widow's Wardrobe, Gloria Damasco as a Chicana detective transgresses into a traditional masculine profession proving that women are capable to do an equal or better job than men. Historically most protagonists of the detective novels have been male, while female characters are portrayed ether as hysterical or as the damsel in
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Los Angeles California My Favorite Place To Visit
Los Angeles is one of the most exciting cities in the United States. According to the Los Angeles post record tourist numbers in 2012, the city attracts 41.4 million visitors per year. Even though the traffic is terrible, Los Angeles is still one of my favorite places because of the many restaurants to dine in, and the many wonderful attractions. Traffic inLos Angelesis implausible. The streets are congested from morning to night and everyone seems to be in a hurry from the walkers to the drivers. My first time in Los Angeles the traffic was so bad that crossing the street literally scared me; I stood there for the longest time, looking at the light, trying to figure out when to cross....show more content...
My first time there, I was astonished at all the things Los Angeles had going on. I really enjoyed Universal Studios, Holly Wood walk of fame, Disney Land and the Los Angeles Museum. Every year for the past two years, I have had the pleasure of going to one of the biggest attractions in Los Angeles: The Taste of Soul Festival, a community event held on the famous Crenshaw Boulevard where the people of Los Angeles come together as one. People also come from others states to enjoy this event. There is singing, dancing, competitions, games and activities. The festival includes live bands comprised of R&B, jazz, country, gospel and much more. Many vendors also participate in this event, sellingfood such as hotdogs, sausages, fish, crabs, chicken, cotton candy and ice cream. This is a big event. According to the Los Angeles Sentinel, more than 300,000 people attended in 2012. One of the best times of my stay in Los Angeles was being a part of this event. My favorite enjoyment was the live Gospel Music, the steppers, and the great seafood.
In conclusion, I think everyone should visit Los Angeles at least once in his or her lifetime. Even though the traffic is terrible, there is always something to do and somewhere to go. Los Angeles is one of those cities where one could never be bored. Visitors will enjoy the fine dining with many delicious offerings and incredible amount of area attractions. I will
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La Brea Tar Pits Introduction
The La Brea tar pits have been well–known for over a century. Before the rise of European settlers, local Indian tribes used the tar to caulk canoes and waterproof tents. As the Industrial Revolution took off the early 1900s, the tar pits attracted oil men, as asphaltum is often associated with petroleum. Then,
W. W. Orcutt, the original organizer of the geological department of Union Oil of California, reexamined the area in 1901, he discovered "a vast mosaic of white bones" on the surface of a pool of asphalt the skeleton of a giant ground sloth, a huge armored animal that had been extinct for millions of years. As paleontologists subsequently probed theLa Brea tar pits, it became obvious...show more content... To avoid this, the saber–tooth and other La Brea predators would spend more time with their prey animal carcasses, eating them more closely even at the risk of tooth damage.
It is also known that as the number of humans increased, the number of giant predators decreased. While we still do not know for sure whether the humans hunted predators (presumably to eliminate threats rather than as food), outcompeted them for prey, or whether there were climactic changes that encouraged human settlement while limiting opportunities for big prey animals due to the decline in vegetable matter, their food source, leading to a cascade of food source collapses.
Non–Megafauna
The shift in climate 10,000 years ago took a toll on many different types of animals that can now be found in La Brea. Barlow (2000) notes that " only a half dozen species of Pleistocene dung beetles were fortuitously preserved in the La Brea tar pits of California, along with the bones of ground sloths, sabertooth cats, dire wolves, and carrion–feeding birds." (Barlow 2000, p. 209)
Interestingly, despite being from a far older group of species, insects such as beetles may be considered more evolutionarily suited to their environments. Insects are more likely to exist today, unchanged, than are any of the giant Ice Age"megafauna" they have been found alongside in the La Brea tar pits.
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The film La Haine, directed by Mike blah, addresses the effects of social stratification on three young men as a result of the civil unrest existing within an impoverished town on the outskirts of Paris, France. The film also focuses on the tyrannical relationship between law enforcement and the underprivileged. However, by examining experiences of the main characters, it becomes apparent that the film is ultimately critiquing society's tendency to categorize and exploit individuals based on their race and class.
Someone's likeliness to be taken advantage of can be directly related to their racial context. For example, Gallagher explains that, "Being a part of a racial hierarchy requires that you learn to look at a person's physical appearance and place him or her in a racial box that allegedly serves as ready reference for that group's behavior, intellectual abilities, and temperament" (Gallagher 11). The act of pigeonhole–ing foreigners has been learned and acquired from society. The act of socialization of racial pecking orders also occur in the film when the main characters: Said, Vinz, and Hubert are all representative of different...show more content...
In one scene, Said and Hubert are imprisoned and tortured by the police. The officers choke them and shout racial slurs. For the police (and society), "justification for treating groups defined as inferior in an exploitive and oppressive manner." (Gallagher 11) lead to the men's physical and emotional mistreatment. Ultimately, the film;s message is that because hateful concepts such asracism and classism exist, underprivileged humans are kept from achieving upward social mobility. Although the boys are continually outraged by the burdens society has imposed on them, their efforts to escape their unfavorable situations are futile because they all end up, or "land", in a tragic was predetermined by
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Examples Of Cultural Differences In La Haine
La Haine is a crime drama that was released February 23, 1996. The film's director and screen writer are Mathieu Kassovitz, who captures what life was like for three young men growing up in the suburban "ghetto" of France. Vinz (Vincent Cassel) plays the hot headed young gangster who acts on impulse and seems like he has something to prove. Said (Said Taghmaoui) plays the middle man, and Hubert plays the more lever headed roles of someone who wants to really get out of his living situation. In the film, one cultural similarity I noticed was the diversity of nationalities. Vinz is Jewish, Said is Arab, and Hubert is African American. In most suburban "ghetto" communities there are people from different nationalities all in a similar situation....show more content... One cultural difference I did notice were the riots. Today, with the black lives matter movement instead of rioting violently like you see in the film, there are more peaceful protest and you see many Americans using social media to bring light to the issue at hand. Another cultural difference I noticed were Vinz, Said, and Hubert's beliefs and practices. At the beginning you see Hubert as the more level headed individual but towards the end of the movie things escalate and you start to see a more violent, aggressive side of him. Though, Americans have had a history of getting aggressive and rioting we've had more of an impact on being heard through social media and peaceful protest to bring light to the fact that racism is very much alive in this movie and this era. The irony in the quote "The world is yours" puts in perspective that these are three young men jobless, poor , and doing illegal activities just to make it another day. Today more and more Americans are fed up with police brutality and these young black men and woman having their lives taken away so soon. These types of events have caused us as people to come together and become stronger as a unit to make a difference in American and bring light to the fact that racism is still very real. Vinz being so passionate about wanting to kill a cop if his friend in the hospital died
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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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We all know the big city that everyone loves to talk about and be a part of the experience of a lifetime which is Los Angeles, also known as L.A. It is one of the most known cities in California and around the world where people's dreams come true. L.A. is best known for its beaches, entertainment, amusements, and the people around the city. It's also known as "The City of Angels", which is the spanish word for "Angeles". It is the second most populous city in the United States after New York. I've always known L.A. as a big part of my life, being born in the city of luxury and fame. Growing up, I never knew how much of a big deal LA was until I was in high school. Being around so much popularity and seeing the opportunities that LA has brought to people was amazing to me. From the sports games, to the concerts, to the famous celebrities walking the red carpets brung so much excitement to me and I was glad to experience all of it.
I've always wondered what L.A. would be like in the later years, and instantly I saw how things would start to change. There would be places that would have so much chaos and confusion I wasn't really aware of at first. Restaurants, movie theatres, and parking lots would be so overcrowded. Every morning I would go to school and there would always be traffic. Some people had to go to work and some people would drop their kids off to school. Every street light, every freeway, every highway there was traffic. Then around 3pm, most people would be Get
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Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine captures one day in the life of three young 'outcasts' from a French banlieue. French banlieues, or suburban outskirts, tend to emanate images of deviance, violence, and disorder among the majority of France. The film forces the viewer to acknowledge the marginalized others who are usually denied the right to represent themselves. La Haine challenges hegemonic conceptions of France's imagined geographic identity, by exposing just one of the ways in which its society is actually segregated. The film brings light to the marginalization and oppression the people who live in the banlieue often face through a shocking narrative that forces the viewer to pay attention. The film opens with an image of the Earth as a voiceover tells the story of a man falling from a 50–story building. As he falls, he says to himself, 'so far, so good, so far,...show more content...
The police drive Hubert and Said to the station where they interrogate them and torture them. One of them asks Hubert to pick up a knife with his feet "like [his] people do back home" and tells a new cop that the hardest part of torturing 'these people' is knowing just the right moment to stop, stopping just before they are dead, but sometimes he says, "it's hard not to lose control" (Kassovitz, La Haine).
Towards the end of the movie, Hubert, Said and Vinz observe a wall of multiple television screens, which are projecting images and videos of the war in Bosnia. Suddenly a news broadcast interrupts the program and announces the death of Abdel, the boy who was beaten by police in the riots the night before. This is a climatic moment in the flim because throughout, Vinz has promised to kill a cop to get revenge for Abdel if he were to die. Ultimately Vinz realizes that he will never have the courage to act on his words, and he gives his gun to Hubert, as he has no use for it
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La La Land (2016) is a new Hollywood twist on an old–fashioned musical that left me in tears. The film stars Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and Mia (Emma Stone) who come together with a passionate love, formed through their common yearn for reaching their personal dream careers. Although their common aspirations brought them together, it also plays an evident role in pulling their relationship apart. I believe La La Land fully captures the director's vision through beautiful filming techniques and strategically placed sensory additions. The jazzy, unique tone of La La Land has reminiscence of the 1920s, which is personally my favorite time period in history. The 1920s–feel is twisted into the film's depiction of relationships through song choices and imagery is effective in reviving the effortlessness and naturality everyday life should have. The film, which was produced in 2016, uses an old fashion twist to show how relationships have changed over the years. La La Land begins with Sebastian and Mia's relationship as sweet and innocent, which remind me of the years when my grandparents dated. The sweetness of the relationship is depicted as if it is easy and as if they are on "cloud nine". This twist on the beginning of the film makes the film impressive, which is due to its effectiveness towards how relationships used to be and should be today. Towards the middle of the film, Sebastian and Mia's relationship hits a rocky patch and it starts to resemble how most current day
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La La Land Analysis
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Have you ever heard the legend about La Llorona known as "The Weeping Women"?Do you hear that? Do you hear that crying noise? People say that if you hear her cry expect death! La Llorona is real, even though people say she is she is an urban legend. There has been sightings of her in many places.
La Llorona real name was Maria. Maria was a very beautiful mexican women with long thick black shiny hair and also very tall and skinny. She wore a white gown at all times and also with bare feet. She is very basic but not on the inside. She had two small sons that took up most of her evening time but still loved them like they were one and only.
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La Llorona stories or legends are truly what you would call horrifying or maybe even your worst nightmare. The legend also says that she is still here, maybe at this very moment, but you never know what you might think is real, is. Maria truly loved her sons at one point until she was cursed, but the legend does not know exactly what or who cursed Maria, I guess it will be unknown forever. The legend says that Maria also known as The Weeping Women still wonders around the river she killed her children in today, hoping to find her dead sons one day
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