Post by kim on Dec 10, 2006 12:38:32 GMT -5
the 400 blows by francois truffaut
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You see a boy making mistakes, lying, stealing, skipping school... you see that his mother doesn't love him. this movie was very creative, because you didn't think the boy was really bad. he wasn't. in fact, he plagerized in an attempt to win his mother's love. but it backfired on him. he is a boy who had a chance. but no one offered him that chance. his parents send him to a school for delinquints, and when his mother tells him she and his father are done with him, he escapes, and it ends with a still of his face all alone with the sea in the background. he had always wanted to see the sea. and it just ends. and you immediately feel a sense of hopelessness, that this child who was doing his best, is now abandoned and has no future. that his future will be crime.
i mean, the movie was very clever, because he wasn't severely abused. i expected to see that having skimmed the back of the movie. this was a boy who was never noticed or heard at home. sometimes he was, but it was inconsistent. and it also was clever, because most of the damage was done from the child's mother, not his father. that is a perspective often not shown on film.
copied from the back:
Francois Truffaut's first feature is also his most personal. Told through the yes of Truffaut's cinematic counterpart, Antoine Doinel, The 400 Blows sensitively re-creates the trials of Trufflaut's own difficult childhood, unsentimentally portraying aloof parents, oppressive teachers, and petty crime.
You see a boy making mistakes, lying, stealing, skipping school... you see that his mother doesn't love him. this movie was very creative, because you didn't think the boy was really bad. he wasn't. in fact, he plagerized in an attempt to win his mother's love. but it backfired on him. he is a boy who had a chance. but no one offered him that chance. his parents send him to a school for delinquints, and when his mother tells him she and his father are done with him, he escapes, and it ends with a still of his face all alone with the sea in the background. he had always wanted to see the sea. and it just ends. and you immediately feel a sense of hopelessness, that this child who was doing his best, is now abandoned and has no future. that his future will be crime.
i mean, the movie was very clever, because he wasn't severely abused. i expected to see that having skimmed the back of the movie. this was a boy who was never noticed or heard at home. sometimes he was, but it was inconsistent. and it also was clever, because most of the damage was done from the child's mother, not his father. that is a perspective often not shown on film.