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''Les Miserables'' is a 2019 film from France directed by Ladj Ly.
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''Les Miserables'' Misérables'' is a 2019 film from France directed by Ladj Ly.
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It is not, repeat not, an adaptation of Creator/VictorHugo's ''Literature/LesMiserables'', although the title is a ShoutOut. Instead it is a modern-day story set in the Parisian suburb of Montfermeil, one of the main settings of Hugo's novel. (Jean Valjean meets Cosette there.) It's still a slum, a place where African Muslims live in shabby, crowded apartment buildings.
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It is not, repeat not, ''not'', an adaptation of Creator/VictorHugo's ''Literature/LesMiserables'', although the title is a ShoutOut. Instead it is a modern-day story set in the Parisian suburb of Montfermeil, one of the main settings of Hugo's novel. (Jean Valjean meets Cosette there.) It's still a slum, a place where African Muslims live in shabby, crowded apartment buildings.
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A cop, Stefane Ruiz, has moved to the area to be closer to his ex-wife and their son. He has been assigned to the SCU, a French police unit that seems to exist to terrorize and abuse the Muslim community. He spends one day on patrol with Chris (a white guy) and Gwada (himself from the French Muslim community), and that's enough to observe that Chris is a brutal, vicious thug and Gwada is mostly a passive observer of his partner's abuses.
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A cop, Stefane Stéphane Ruiz, has moved to the area to be closer to his ex-wife and their son. He has been assigned to the SCU, a French police unit that seems to exist to terrorize and abuse the Muslim community. He spends one day on patrol with Chris (a white guy) and Gwada (himself from the French Muslim community), and that's enough to observe that Chris is a brutal, vicious thug and Gwada is mostly a passive observer of his partner's abuses.
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* PervyPatdown: Chris is firmly established as a bad guy when he harasses a teenaged girl at a bus stop, and sticks his hand down her shirt, supposedly to check if she's carrying marijuana but really to feel her up.
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* HoodFilm: the movie falls into the genra of 'Film de Banlieue', the French counterpart of American [[[HoodFilm Hood films]].
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* HoodFilm: the movie falls into the genra of or rather its french counterpart: 'Film de Banlieue', the French counterpart of American [[[HoodFilm Hood films]].Banlieue'.
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* ShutUpGunshot: Chris shoots his flash-ball gun in the air to break up a near-riot between the Africans who live in the apartment building and the angry Romani who want their lion cub back. It also serves as {{Foreshadowing}} as it demonstrates that the cops have that type of gun.
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* ShutUpGunshot: Chris shoots his flash-ball gun in the air to break up a near-riot between the Africans Mayor and his group who live in the apartment building and the angry Romani who want their lion cub back. It also serves as {{Foreshadowing}} as it demonstrates that the cops have that type of gun.
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* RatedMForManly: Hot-blooded men? Yes. Testosterone? Yes. Stuff blowing up? Yes. Violence? Yes. Women? Barely any. Given how everything turn to shit, one can argue that the story may have an AccidentalAesop.
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* RatedMForManly: Hot-blooded men? Yes. Testosterone? Yes. Stuff blowing up? Yes. Violence? Yes. Women? Barely any. Given how everything turn to shit, one can argue that the story may have an AccidentalAesop.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: None of the adult protoganists is either truly good or evil. All try to keep order, law and business in Montfermeuil, a powder keg fueled by poverty, violence and racism: the cops try to maintain the law but resort to intimidation and brutality to do so. The mayor and his goons seem to have good intentions and try to make the life easier for the locals but are ruthless and hungry for power. The carnies are assholes but are understanbly pissed about the stolen lion cub. Salah seems to be the most benevolent adult around, taking care of Buzz and dispensing Coran wisdom but he and his disciples are rather menacing and are implied to be religious extremists. In the end, all of them end up try to damage-control the police blunder for their own benefice at the expense of Issa.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: None of the adult protoganists is either truly good or evil. All try to keep order, law and business in Montfermeuil, a powder keg fueled by poverty, violence and racism: the racism. The cops try to maintain the law but resort to intimidation and brutality to do so. The mayor and his goons seem to have good intentions and try to make the life easier for the locals but are ruthless and hungry for power. The carnies are assholes but are understanbly pissed about the stolen lion cub. Salah seems to be the most benevolent adult around, taking care of Buzz and dispensing Coran wisdom but he and his disciples are rather menacing and are implied to be religious extremists. In the end, all of them end up try to damage-control the police blunder for their own benefice at the expense of Issa.
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''Les Miserables'' is a 2019 film from France directed by Ladj Ly.
It is not, repeat not, an adaptation of Creator/VictorHugo's ''Literature/LesMiserables'', although the title is a ShoutOut. Instead it is a modern-day story set in the Parisian suburb of Montfermeil, one of the main settings of Hugo's novel. (Jean Valjean meets Cosette there.) It's still a slum, a place where African Muslims live in shabby, crowded apartment buildings.
A cop, Stefane Ruiz, has moved to the area to be closer to his ex-wife and their son. He has been assigned to the SCU, a French police unit that seems to exist to terrorize and abuse the Muslim community. He spends one day on patrol with Chris (a white guy) and Gwada (himself from the French Muslim community), and that's enough to observe that Chris is a brutal, vicious thug and Gwada is mostly a passive observer of his partner's abuses.
The next day the cops find a disturbance outside the tenements. It seems that a boy from the community was spotted stealing a lion cub from a UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} circus. Chris scours social media and sure enough, discovers a boy named Issa, who looks about 12, showing off pictures of a lion cub. The three cops yank Issa off the playground, only for his friends to corner them in an alleyway where they start throwing garbage. Panicking, Gwada pulls the trigger on his [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash-ball flash-ball gun]]...and the round hits Issa in the face.
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* BlackAndNerdy: Buzz, a young boy who lives in the tenement, wears thick glasses, is socially awkward, and is tech-savvy enough to fly a video drone around and download the videos he takes.
* BringMyBrownPants: Played for tragic drama as Zorro the circus keeper dangles young Issa in front of a grown male lion.
* ChekhovsGun: The drone that Buzz is shown flying around in an early scene. It takes the incriminating video of Gwada shooting Issa.
* CowboyCop: Chris is a thuggish variation of this, brutalizing and intimidating the locals when he isn't helping the local crime boss run his rackets. When Ruiz calls him out for acting like a cowboy, Chris says "You don't get it. It isn't an act."
* {{Epigraph}}: The MexicanStandoff, LeftHanging ending fades to black, and the film ends with a quotation from Victor Hugo's book: "Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators."
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: If there were any doubt that Chris is a brutal thug, it's removed in the scene where he harasses some teenaged girls at a bus stop, sticking his hands inside the prettiest one's blouse and molesting her while supposedly searching her for marijuana.
* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: The boys of the projects ambush the three cops, luring them into the apartment building then hurling mortars and garbage and other debris at them, while the police cower in a stairwell and call for backup.
* IAmTheNoun: Chris screams "I AM THE LAW!", when trying to get Salah and the other Muslims in the halal eatery to turn over the video card. It doesn't work.
* LeftHanging: The film ends with Ruiz at the bottom of a stairwell, pointing a gun at Issa, who stands at the top of the stairs holding a lit Molotov cocktail. The film fades to black, leaving the audience to wonder whether or not Issa throws it.
* ManlyTears: Gwada, who lives with his mom, comes home and breaks down in tears in their kitchen after the events of the traumatic day.
* MexicanStandoff: The film ends with an unresolved one in which Ruiz is pointing a gun at Issa, who is holding a lit Molotov cocktail.
* NaiveNewcomer: A rather idealistic cop named Ruiz joins an SCU unit and soon discovers that his partners are thugs.
* ThePeepingTom: Buzz the awkward nerd flies his drone around and takes videos of women in the tenements changing their clothes.
* PoliceBrutality: Chris and Gwada, and especially Chris, are vicious brutes. Chris takes pleasure in tormenting the locals. Matters come to a head when Gwada shoots Issa in the face with a flash ball, and Chris, rather than get the boy medical help, goes on a hunt for the drone and the video card with the incriminating video.
* SecondFaceSmoke: Chris blows smoke in the face of a teenaged girl in an obvious effort to intimidate her.
* ShoutOut: The title of the film and the shout-outs to Victor Hugo are thematically appropriate, as the film is a tale of the poor and oppressed in the same slums where Hugo set his story.
* ShutUpGunshot: Chris shoots his flash-ball gun in the air to break up a near-riot between the Africans who live in the apartment building and the angry Romani who want their lion cub back. It also serves as {{Foreshadowing}} as it demonstrates that the cops have that type of gun.
* SpitefulSpit: Chris spits on the floor as the large crowd inside the eatery force him to leave without either Buzz or the video card.
* TitleDrop: In an early scene Chris tells Ruiz that a local school is named after Creator/VictorHugo and that Hugo supposedly wrote ''Literature/LesMiserables'' in that neighborhood.
* YourMom: Part of the morning insult duel between cops at headquarters has one tell the other, "your wife's face broke the arm rest."
It is not, repeat not, an adaptation of Creator/VictorHugo's ''Literature/LesMiserables'', although the title is a ShoutOut. Instead it is a modern-day story set in the Parisian suburb of Montfermeil, one of the main settings of Hugo's novel. (Jean Valjean meets Cosette there.) It's still a slum, a place where African Muslims live in shabby, crowded apartment buildings.
A cop, Stefane Ruiz, has moved to the area to be closer to his ex-wife and their son. He has been assigned to the SCU, a French police unit that seems to exist to terrorize and abuse the Muslim community. He spends one day on patrol with Chris (a white guy) and Gwada (himself from the French Muslim community), and that's enough to observe that Chris is a brutal, vicious thug and Gwada is mostly a passive observer of his partner's abuses.
The next day the cops find a disturbance outside the tenements. It seems that a boy from the community was spotted stealing a lion cub from a UsefulNotes/{{Romani}} circus. Chris scours social media and sure enough, discovers a boy named Issa, who looks about 12, showing off pictures of a lion cub. The three cops yank Issa off the playground, only for his friends to corner them in an alleyway where they start throwing garbage. Panicking, Gwada pulls the trigger on his [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash-ball flash-ball gun]]...and the round hits Issa in the face.
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!!Tropes:
* BlackAndNerdy: Buzz, a young boy who lives in the tenement, wears thick glasses, is socially awkward, and is tech-savvy enough to fly a video drone around and download the videos he takes.
* BringMyBrownPants: Played for tragic drama as Zorro the circus keeper dangles young Issa in front of a grown male lion.
* ChekhovsGun: The drone that Buzz is shown flying around in an early scene. It takes the incriminating video of Gwada shooting Issa.
* CowboyCop: Chris is a thuggish variation of this, brutalizing and intimidating the locals when he isn't helping the local crime boss run his rackets. When Ruiz calls him out for acting like a cowboy, Chris says "You don't get it. It isn't an act."
* {{Epigraph}}: The MexicanStandoff, LeftHanging ending fades to black, and the film ends with a quotation from Victor Hugo's book: "Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators."
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: If there were any doubt that Chris is a brutal thug, it's removed in the scene where he harasses some teenaged girls at a bus stop, sticking his hands inside the prettiest one's blouse and molesting her while supposedly searching her for marijuana.
* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: The boys of the projects ambush the three cops, luring them into the apartment building then hurling mortars and garbage and other debris at them, while the police cower in a stairwell and call for backup.
* IAmTheNoun: Chris screams "I AM THE LAW!", when trying to get Salah and the other Muslims in the halal eatery to turn over the video card. It doesn't work.
* LeftHanging: The film ends with Ruiz at the bottom of a stairwell, pointing a gun at Issa, who stands at the top of the stairs holding a lit Molotov cocktail. The film fades to black, leaving the audience to wonder whether or not Issa throws it.
* ManlyTears: Gwada, who lives with his mom, comes home and breaks down in tears in their kitchen after the events of the traumatic day.
* MexicanStandoff: The film ends with an unresolved one in which Ruiz is pointing a gun at Issa, who is holding a lit Molotov cocktail.
* NaiveNewcomer: A rather idealistic cop named Ruiz joins an SCU unit and soon discovers that his partners are thugs.
* ThePeepingTom: Buzz the awkward nerd flies his drone around and takes videos of women in the tenements changing their clothes.
* PoliceBrutality: Chris and Gwada, and especially Chris, are vicious brutes. Chris takes pleasure in tormenting the locals. Matters come to a head when Gwada shoots Issa in the face with a flash ball, and Chris, rather than get the boy medical help, goes on a hunt for the drone and the video card with the incriminating video.
* SecondFaceSmoke: Chris blows smoke in the face of a teenaged girl in an obvious effort to intimidate her.
* ShoutOut: The title of the film and the shout-outs to Victor Hugo are thematically appropriate, as the film is a tale of the poor and oppressed in the same slums where Hugo set his story.
* ShutUpGunshot: Chris shoots his flash-ball gun in the air to break up a near-riot between the Africans who live in the apartment building and the angry Romani who want their lion cub back. It also serves as {{Foreshadowing}} as it demonstrates that the cops have that type of gun.
* SpitefulSpit: Chris spits on the floor as the large crowd inside the eatery force him to leave without either Buzz or the video card.
* TitleDrop: In an early scene Chris tells Ruiz that a local school is named after Creator/VictorHugo and that Hugo supposedly wrote ''Literature/LesMiserables'' in that neighborhood.
* YourMom: Part of the morning insult duel between cops at headquarters has one tell the other, "your wife's face broke the arm rest."
