Truffaut's Honesty

Zackary 2022-04-20 09:01:41

I didn't have a great childhood, but of course, it looked beautiful, and it's very similar to many stages of my life. It is this kind of unspoken emotion that makes me particularly fond of the films of bipolar and depressing childhood.

A film made more than 50 years ago today does not feel exaggerated and cheap at all, and can drive the audience to resonate with it. Truffaut has gone too far. This made me deeply feel that only the art of honesty is immortal.

That's it, honesty runs through every corner of the movie, there is no continuous ups and downs of the plot, the audience just follows Leo to play truant, spin, run, feel the sad moment of happiness and the silent breakaway, and can still know when the boy is tearing up the book. smile. The famous run at the end makes people sigh endlessly, Leo, where are you running to?

In fact, youth is inherently cruel. I don't know why many adults are always so forgetful about their nature. They always say that childhood must be said to be carefree, and their habitual thinking has washed their brains.

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Extended Reading
  • Taurean 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    The classic of this film is not that it has a wonderful story - the film's story is not complete - but that it is reflected in the process of telling the story in multiple ways. The film looks like realism at times, such as many shots with pans instead of editing, and many improvisations. And sometimes it has a very formal style. For example, when being questioned by a psychiatrist, the camera is facing the boy all the way, and the female doctor's face cannot be seen at all. Makes the boy look like he was forced into a corner by the outside world. It is difficult to summarize the film with traditional techniques and schools. He is like a complex genetic engineering, extracting the DNA of various animals and cultivating them into a brand-new species, accidentally triggering the beginning of a new wave.

  • Chase 2022-03-27 09:01:06

    The details and background are explained in a very clean way, so that people can face Antoine's plight in a real way. The two slaps that were caught off guard seem to be brushed on their faces, and the joyful happiness in the cramped car seems to belong to them. On this basis, the advancement of the plot and the implicit critical position are all natural. Not sure how Truffaut did it. Truly charming.

The 400 Blows quotes

  • Rene: You can sleep here. No one will know.

    Antoine Doinel: What about your parents?

    Rene: They never come in here. My mother drinks and my father spends all day at the races.

  • Mr. Bigey: Have you seen your mother lately?

    Rene: Yes, when I came home from school.

    Mr. Bigey: She makes sure she's never home when I am. She must be up to something.