The two most impact sentences after watching the movie are…

1. ‘Its about a society in free fall, so far so good, so far so good, so far so good… its not about the fall
matter, but about how you land.’

2. ‘Hatred breeds hatred. ‘

The movie portrays immigrants who are staying in the suburban’s of Paris, showing the
predicaments of the trios, who are unable to do anything to change their fate. Discrimination against
the immigrants can be seen clearly in the movie. It was blatantly expressed by the cops who
captured them and the news reporters who were interviewing the trio in a car. They were using the
zoomed-in lense of the camera and recording the face close up, even though they are about 30
meters away. These immigrants were left behind by the society and didn’t receive proper education.
Fuelled by unfairness and hatred, these immigrants felt like they belong to this place and started to
resort to violence. From the settings, France has little tolerance towards the immigrants and the
social spaces in this case, the way the housing settlements were allocated to the immigrants, further
exacerbates the discrimination.

Compared to the article written by Beng hua chua, we see that housing policy plays a very important
role in the social cohesion and ethnic diversity. The quotas of the HDB ethnic minority group plays a
huge part in fostering this social cohesion and ethnic diversity. The intentional intervention was so
that they inculcate Singaporeans at a very young age to increase their tolerance towards other races
and religion. Multi culturalism and multiracialism helps to provide peace, stability in the country
which helps to bring about wealth, trust and investments. The fundamental problem in the Hate
movie is the civil unrest that brought about the notion of ‘hatred breeds hatred’.

In the reading about social spatialization and built environment, it explained how urban malls help to
create revenues in the capitalistic society. Such business methods appeal to people who have
purchasing power and came back to spend more and more. From these three cases we can see that
infrastructure can affects the spatial organisation and social cohesion. With the top down approach,
social segregations and racial riots can be mitigated.