How does the cow symbolize that? Not trying to be antagonistic. Legitimately interested in your interpretation

@@sbakernyc5761 There is a superstition that if a cow enters your garden, someone in your family will die. When the movie starts, we learn that the friend of the gang, Abdel, was beaten while in police custody and is in critical condition in the hospital. We learn that there was mass rioting and violence due to public outrage and anger at the police. In my opinion, the cow represents the police and the garden is the neighborhood. Throughout the movie the gang gets into altercations with the police who are patrolling the neighborhood after the violence of the other night. In the end, it is Vinz, the one who saw the cow during the riots and the one who constantly brings up the cow, who dies. The superstition is fulfilled, someone in the gang, which is as tight as a family, dies.

@@orbit5311 Oh wow thanks for the insight, I didn't know that. @SBakerNYUC The cow "fact" I found while reading a little bit about jewish culture and tradition on wikipedia

​@@homr ​ @Orbit ​ @SBakerNYC and in France we have a "expression" which is "mort aux vaches" that we can translate to "death to cow" and its refer to the police "(cow = police) so its basically just "death to cop" and the director Matthieu Kassovitz said in a interview that he was inspired by that phrase back then for that scene !

What I got from that scene and those lines was that; those movies are fake, idealised fantasies that don’t really exist - this is reality as it actually is. Imperfect.

My French teacher told us that it's a way of showing that the French people in the banlieue are just as French as the people in Paris, for example. The way they mix a classic French song with a modern rap song showing that while they're different, they're also living in the same world with the same rules and things.

I tend to agree more with you. However I think the beauty of this movie is the fact that so much of it is open to interpretation. Borderline arbitrary. I'm sure much of this was by design, as it forces us to think, and analyze it both as outsiders, and from the point of view of Said, Vinz and Hubert.

both true, so cool ^^

I interpreted that too

For me it feels like a direct response to the very assimilation heavy attitude the French seem to have … like when u move to France ur expected to call urself French and leave behind ur old culture and that falls in direct contrast to the way a lot of African and middle eastern cultures feel abt it …

it is not about nothing...that is 4 sure. ✌️

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This is called the dolly zoom effect, I think it's when you walk away and zoom in at the same time.

Actually it‘s [la ɛn], the h is silent and the ai is an ä

@@bonnes09 Juste write "en" pronounced in english. Or better yet, just pronounce the letter "n" in English lol. Not that hard

Yea but this dudes British. I’m pretty sure pronouncing French words correctly is punishable by death in England 😂

I still dont know what does that mean?

Kaan Eryılmaz nobody does

Kaan Eryılmaz Vinz is jewish and in the jewish religion seeing a cow is a sign of a close death. It was a foreshadowing for his death at the end of the movie.

@@popcrashboom2111 Thank you! I never think in this way.

@@popcrashboom2111 Vince is a Jewish mystic , not a religious Jew. Vincent sees a cow because the cow is there; not in his own time but in an other's Time.