This film is the most New Wave style and the most delicate and moving one among Truffaut's works. The whole film is filled with a dance of youthful but helpless sadness and despair. In terms of form of expression, the handling of the film is brilliant. The atmosphere in the first half is light and joyful. Truffaut uses flashbacks, jump cuts, freeze-frames and other means to achieve unique ingenuity; The ideal of love is gradually disillusioned. I think Kathleen loves Zhan, otherwise, why would they go to the water together, Zhan is more in line with Kathleen, but he also has feelings for Jiaobei.
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