To what extent is Matthieu Kassovitz's film "La Haine" reflective of France today?

This question would normally be asked as an essay style question or in an oral exam, where the student has to answer questions on a set text/film/topic/region. La Haine premiered in the 1990s at a time when French race relations were extremely tense. Since the 1950s France has seen a wave of immigrants comming from its former colonies and the French government's way of dealing with this was the setting up of the "banlieue" housing system which has in term led to quasi-segregation. As a result the immigrant communities felt ostracised by society, accumulating in the many documented killings of French teens who came from immigrant families by the police during profiled stop and search procedures. This resulted in a number of riots that shook the French establishment and a wave of cultural protest in film and music, especially French rap which is most prominent in the banlieue. La Haine tries to bridge the gap between the white bourgeois parisian society and the banlieue which stereotypically is the home of the immigrant population in order to protest the killings and try to stop them from continuing. We must ask to what extent "La Haine" is reflective of France and French society today. Race relations have come a long way and there is no longer a continued problem of aggresive stop and search policies being carried out by the police, however, if one considers the Charlie Hebdo and Baticlan terrorist attacks, the perpetrators were raised in the banlieue. Obviously one cannot justify terrorism, but part of their radicalisation could be attributed to a rejection from French society by the French state and the use of the banlieue system. This can be argued further when one considers that former leaders such as Sarkozy have been known to say they would wash away with a power house the people, who he called scum, of the banlieue. One can therefore say that although the film is not relfective of French society as a whole today, but rather it shows how France ended up with the problems it faces today, such as growing radical islam and a disgruntled society.