The long shot at the end of the film depicts a series of coherent movements in which little Antoine escaped from the juvenile detention center to the seaside.
The first shot starts at 1:34:34, with Antoine escaping from a juvenile detention facility through a hole under the fence that was discovered long ago on the open football pitch. In open outdoor spaces, director François Truffaut's camera language tends to move quickly. For example, when the people in the juvenile detention center were chasing Antoine, the camera used a rapid fixed camera pan, and the picture was blurred for a moment, full of motion. This shot can be cut into several shots of different scenes and different objects to clearly show Antoine's escape, but the director used free panning to put all the content into one shot, which more completely preserves the complete time and space of the film, respect The continuity of events, the reality of things.
Immediately after the second shot (1:35:53), the spatial dislocation, explaining that Antoine escaped from the pursuit and fled from under the bridge to the sea. This lens embodies Andrei Bazin's favorite deep focus lens,
The third shot (1:35:53-1:37:15) is the most famous one and a half minutes of running shots. The entire shot was shot in one go, shot from Antoine's right side, with a medium shot throughout. This shot seems lengthy, because the director can edit the next shot in ten seconds. However, in order to enhance the documentary sense of the film and to prepare for the emotional climax of the final finale, the director used sports field shots. It's also the lens that best fits Bazin's long-lens theory. There is a dissolve between the third and fourth shots, and bgm is added from the fourth shot.
The fourth shot is a slow pan from right to left, from the front of little Antoine to the sea, and finally Antoine's back.
The last shot is a long shot from a long shot to a long shot to a panorama, and when Antoine goes to the sea, it quickly zooms from a long shot to a close-up (two seconds), and freezes for four seconds to end the film. (1:39:18-1:39:22) The change of scene shows Antoine’s excitement from escaping to the sea to take a look at the sea, and the feeling of loneliness after seeing it. . The end of the freeze frame is to freeze the audience's emotions in the loss of Antoine at the end. It shows the ruthless obliteration of the nature of thirteen-year-old children under the system. Even if they saw the sea, they escaped from the juvenile detention center and did not get the freedom they wanted.
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