
The policeman grabs and threatens Vinz, making reference to the earlier incident on the roof. However, Vinz and Saïd encounter a plainclothes policeman, whom Vinz had insulted earlier in the day whilst with his friends on a local rooftop. His dream of revenge is thwarted by his reluctance to go through with the deed, and, cleverly goaded by Hubert, he is forced to confront the fact that his true nature is not the heartless gangster he poses as, and he lets the skinhead flee.Įarly in the morning, the trio returns to the banlieue and split up to their separate homes, and Vinz turns the gun over to Hubert. Vinz suddenly arrives, and his gun allows him to break up the fight all the skinheads flee except one (portrayed by Kassovitz himself) whom Vinz is about to execute in cold blood. They later travel to a roof-top from which they insult skinheads and policemen, before later encountering the same group of racist anti-immigrant skinheads who begin to beat Saïd and Hubert savagely, now that the balance of power has shifted. They sleep in a shopping mall and wake to a news broadcast informing them that Abdel is dead. A run-in with sadistic plainclothes policemen, during which Saïd and Hubert are humiliated and racially as well as physically abused, results in their missing the last train home and spending the night on the streets. After Vinz nearly shoots a riot policeman and the group narrowly escapes, they take a train to Paris but encounter many of the same frustrations, and their responses to interactions with both benign and malicious Parisians cause several situations to degenerate to dangerous hostility. The three go through an aimless daily routine and struggle to entertain themselves, frequently finding themselves under police scrutiny. He vows that if their friend dies from his injuries, he will use it to kill a cop, and when he hears of Abdel's death he fantasizes carrying out his vengeance. Saïd Template:SndSayid in some English subtitles Template:Snd( Saïd Taghmaoui) is an Arab Maghrebi who inhabits the middle ground between his two friends' responses to their place in life.Ī friend of theirs, Abdel Ichaha, has been brutalized by the police shortly before the riot and lies in a coma. He expresses the wish to simply leave this world of violence and hate behind him, but does not know how since he lacks the means to do so. The quietest, most thoughtful and wisest of the three, he sadly contemplates the ghetto and the hate around him. Hubert ( Hubert Koundé) is an Afro-French boxer and small-time drug dealer, the most mature of the three, whose gymnasium was burned in the riots. His attitude towards police, for instance, is a simplified, stylized blanket condemnation, even to individual policemen who make an effort to steer the trio clear of troublesome situations.
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He sees himself as a gangster ready to win respect by killing a Police man, manically practising the role of Travis Bickle from the film Taxi Driver in the mirror secretly.


Vinz ( Vincent Cassel), who is Jewish, is filled with rage. The film depicts approximately 20 consecutive hours in the lives of three friends in their early twenties from immigrant families living in an impoverished multi-ethnic French housing project (a ZUP Template:Snd zone d'urbanisation prioritaire) in the suburbs of Paris, in the aftermath of a riot.
