We can all appreciate the nice visuals, the camera moves, the nice plays with the lights, the clothes and the place. But too numerous are the drawbacks that come to corrupt the whole movie, and especially when it comes to the content of it.
The acting is very disturbing, sometimes a bit too far from natural reactions, too focused on the script, too played like in theatres not enough realistic as a true movie needs.
As for the content, that's a very checkered issue to showcase that, it says a lot on what these directors want and imagine - a war. That's true to say that there is such a conflict between youngsters from the French hood and police as La Haine showed before, but the dimension is exaggerated, staging these youngsters as true warriors, beating the asses of police which is as we all know not the case - American gang movies know it perfectly.
Briefly, that's a bit awkward to see that, especially when you grow up in these places. However, let's consider that as a cinematic progress on the style, but it's clear that scripts are written by French bourgeois, not people from that place, that the story is written by a the biased opinion of a French bourgeois unashamed of showing that face of the hood: a place of war before a place of nice people, not objective people.
The acting is very disturbing, sometimes a bit too far from natural reactions, too focused on the script, too played like in theatres not enough realistic as a true movie needs.
As for the content, that's a very checkered issue to showcase that, it says a lot on what these directors want and imagine - a war. That's true to say that there is such a conflict between youngsters from the French hood and police as La Haine showed before, but the dimension is exaggerated, staging these youngsters as true warriors, beating the asses of police which is as we all know not the case - American gang movies know it perfectly.
Briefly, that's a bit awkward to see that, especially when you grow up in these places. However, let's consider that as a cinematic progress on the style, but it's clear that scripts are written by French bourgeois, not people from that place, that the story is written by a the biased opinion of a French bourgeois unashamed of showing that face of the hood: a place of war before a place of nice people, not objective people.