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A character in this film dreams about dancing to klezmer music in a tunnel, after which the camera zooms in on his name spelled on his knuckle rings. In this film, an old man in a bathroom tells a story of a fellow Gulag prisoner who froze to death after a train left him behind since he was too embarrassed to defecate in front of the others. In this film’s opening, a narrator tells a joke about a man falling off a skyscraper over a shot of a Molotov cocktail (15[1])falling onto a picture of the Earth, after which Bob Marley’s song “Burnin’ and (*) Lootin’” plays over a montage of riots. In a crazy shot from this film, the camera slowly enters a bathroom mirror into which one of its protagonists re-enacts Travis Bickle’s (-5[1])“you talkin’ to me?” monologue. (10[1])Spike Lee’s (10[1])joints inspired the style of this 1995 film, in which the boxer-cum-drug dealer Hubert talks Vinz out of shooting a cop to avenge Abdel’s death. For 10 points, name this Mathieu Kassovitz film about three youths in the Paris banlieues. ■END■ (10[1])

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