How far does the impact of the films you have studied for this topic depend on distinctive use of film techniques?

During this topic, I have studied La Haine, a film which depends on film techniques to get across the idea that "The world only goes round by misunderstanding" which was a philosophy by Charles Baudelaire. This is predominately shown through the director's use of time. Throughout the film, we constantly see this image of a digital clock which shows the passing of time and also informs us that the events in the movie happen with in the course of 24 hours. This shot is most significantly used just before the end of the movie which is the only time when you see the clock actually move. The digit moves in a circular motion to change 6:00am to 6:01am. The fact that this is the only time we see the clock actually move shows the significance of the scene that follows which runs in real time along with the clock but (also for the first time in the movie) shows a lot happening in this scene. Usually, the three boys don't have much to do and just sit around but in this scene, it shows a quick succession of events that cause the boys act by instinct; leading to events that have been foreshadowed throughout the rest of the film. This scene also takes place with a picture of Charles Baudelaire painted on the side of one of the projects, as if trying to emphasis his philosophy. By using the idea of time, it could represent the circular motion of time passing on the face of a clock but also the fact that this image of a clock shows the circular movement of time and that it is constantly repeated which could be the director's way of saying that the times are always repeating and that we don't learn from our mistakes. That history keeps repeating much like in context to this film, where French citizens had been having a lot of riots to try and get across their point to the government that their treatment was unfair. These riots changed nothing but still continued to happen, as if the thoughts of the citizens were repeated ignored through out the times and yet the country still moves on; much like a clock, it doesn't notice what's around it, it simply moves on.