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La Haine Remake: Shondaland’s Diverse Take on Urban Tension
Original Film France, 1995. Three friends spend 24 tense hours in the Paris banlieues in the aftermath of a riot sparked by police violence. The Reimagining Koreatown, Los Angeles 1992 — 24 tense hours after the unrest. This reimagining relocates La Haine’s furious, real-time structure to Koreatown, Los Angeles, in the days following real civil unrest — drawing on the actual, complicated history of tension and solidarity between Korean-American communities and other communities of colour during the 1992 unrest. Three childhood friends — two Korean-American, one Chinese-American — spend a single day and night processing the beating of a close…
