November 08, 2005
Paris, L'Invasion, La Haine
La Haine (1995) is to Paris, 2005 what Spike Lee's
Do the Right Thing (1989) is to Los Angeles, 1992.
In France the Revolution is commonly seen as the triumph of a new
concept of the nation. Armed with the enlightenment concepts of reason,
will and individualism, the Revolution established the nation as a
voluntary association or contract between free individuals.
This concept of the nation triumphed over the other major model
for the formation of modern nations, that of the concept of a
predetermined community bound by blood and heredity.
-- Silverman: 1992 p.19.
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