"Lonely and Impulsive"

For what youth is like, French films can always bring different interpretations to the audience. As for Alex in the film, he seems to have everything, but in the end, he has nothing. This is an unpredictable love story, so that the characters in the film seem to have many seemingly unreasonable behaviors, but the director has already carefully paved the way with details in the previous article. The poetic monologue makes people immersed in it, savoring the romance and madness of this French style.

The protagonist Alex in the film is full of primitive impulses. For money and love, he can do everything he can to collide with social rules and moral constraints. In the film, in order to fall in love with Anna at first sight, he did not hesitate to offend Mark; in order to get the medicine, he did not hesitate to point a gun at his head among a group of policemen in order to protect himself. I really felt Alex's madness engraved in his bones. And Alex's crazy personality has already hinted to the audience through his yellow and black leather jacket that he is a dangerous person. The emotions of many characters in the film are also expressed to the audience through the change of clothing: the goddess-like white dress made Alex's heart when he first met Anna, and then the red cardigan implied the passion in Alex's heart. When amusing Anna, the color of the tissue in Anna's hand changed from cool to warm. The speed of these dramatic color changes also hints at the complexity of the protagonist's heart, and the setting of daring to love and daring to hate also makes the characters gradually fuller. Rather than saying that "Bad Blood" and "400 Blows" belong to the French brutal youth category, it is better to say that "Bad Blood" is richer in color than the cruel and lonely "400 Blows" in black and white. Love and hate, loneliness and confusion in society.

Lonely runs through the tone of the entire film. Everyone in the film seems to be fettered, but what is revealed is a sense of loneliness. "People who don't love each other can catch the virus if they have sex." While it seems to be referring to HIV, this seems to be referring to the "intimate loneliness" between partners in society. Losing feelings for a partner, even having seemingly intimate intercourse, can spread loneliness like an incurable virus. In the film, the sense of loneliness is vividly expressed through the director's use of space and the control of composition. A large number of closed compositions confine the characters to door frames and fences, and the cage-like pictures reveal the characters' powerlessness. In the open air, Alex is in the center of the frame while skydiving, while the parachute rope around him wraps around him like a spider's web at the beginning. He was like a prey caught in a cobweb. Perhaps when he promised to help, his tragic fate was already doomed. After that, he was just a prey at the mercy of others, like a fallen leaf fluttering alone in the air. The dialogue between Mark and Hans at the opening also shows their scheming. The fast-paced editing, the marginalization of the characters in the composition, and the large lines of lines allow the audience to quickly enter the plot and bring a sense of tension. And in just a few minutes, the background is clear and complete.

The content of this film is rich, love, adventure, gangster, literature and art can be used as its labels. And this also highlights the madness in the protagonist's life. When Alex first met Anna on the bus, Alex couldn't see her face clearly. At this time, the audience was just as eager as Alex to know what the woman in white looked like; when Alex was playing cards, the brim of the onlookers' hats covered it. His eyes, which seemed to cover the fate of Alex, paved the way for the tragedy of Alex; the light on the character's face did not change with the ambient light, and the shadow on the character's face followed the development of the plot. The mood changed from bright to dark. This series of imagery expressions make the crazy expression of youth in the characters vividly and vividly. The gourd was shot and said that it shattered his reinforced concrete stomach. At this time, Alex, who represented freedom in his stomach, was finally released. Alex was dead, but Ana taxied down the runway of the airport with a smear of his blood, taking him to the sky he longed for. These wild ideas in the film make people have to think of another equally crazy youth movie "Trainspotting". They all have seemingly abrupt plots, but maybe this is the life of young people? Like Alex in David Bowie's music, the spirit of the rock age allows young people to run toward their goals without worrying about it. The director made the cruel reality have a charming color and thought-provoking absurdity, making this tragedy give people a sense of contradiction that escaped from reality but happened around him.

Youthful youth yearns for freedom, and youthful love is unpredictable. The plot in the film does not escape reality but makes people feel absurd. This may be the director's helplessness to the unpredictability of the world, or it may be the scrutiny of the complicated society.