Please watch La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz, 1999) on Kanopy. The assignment consists in answering the
questions below Around 500 words should be enough,
Here is the link:
https://www.kanopy.com/product/la-haine
This story about three guys from a different cultural background but living together in a project in Paris.
Please, answer the following questions related to the three major sociological perspectives:
- FUNCTIONALISM. What would be the project's function in society (manifest, latent, dysfunction) and how
we can see that in the movie? And also, why is anomie happening? - CONFLICT: Explain the movie through the duality/confrontation of bourgeois (owner, exploiters) and
proletariat (workers, exploited), how Economy defines the fate of the characters and how/why the revolution is
trying to take place. - FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE: Explain the (very limited) role of women in the movie.
- INTERACTIONISM How the three main characters interact? How are their different households? How does
the gun work as a dramatic symbol during the whole movie?
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