my favourite “dolly zoom” 🖤

the dolly zoom is a camera technique that distorts perspective by simultaneously zooming the lens while moving the camera toward or away from a subject, invented by Alfred Hitchcock in Vertigo (1958)

in La Haine it amplifies the character's emotional distress and the scene's instability, even serving as a metaphor for the film's critique of systemic inequality

La Haine (1995), Mathieu Kassovitz