The streets of Paris are crowded, narrow, and people are always coming and going. Antoine and his friends shuttle among them, and no one knows what happened to this little boy.
Playing truant, seeing his mother kissing a strange man on the street, depressing school, annoying teacher, and a broken family, Antoine is the most free and happiest time when he is running on the street with his little friends. There is no complete narrative chain, we just follow Antoine and watch him run away from home, steal, lie, be hired by his parents, sent to a juvenile detention center, everything seems to happen naturally, but it doesn't seem like it should happen.
I am amazed at Truffaut's grasp of the psychology of the little boy. No matter how mature Antoine himself is, Truffaut always reminds us with details that he is just a little boy who climbed onto the street after stealing milk. On the fountain, use your hands to break the thin ice inside and wet your hands to clean the stains left by drinking milk on your face. This is something only a little boy can do.
He will be panicked, sad, angry, and scared, but Antoine in these emotions has the same expression, only when he laughs when he is out with friends, and when he overhears his parents arguing at night. There are tears. When seeing a psychiatrist at the juvenile management center, Antoine's casual self-report was very disturbing. Antoine didn't know where he was going. Even the moment he saw the sea, his pleasant and free mood was still filled with confusion and confusion. The only thing he was sure about was that he was going to leave, leaving his parents who didn't want him, leaving The incompetent and disrespectful teacher, as for where to go, I believe Antoine will slowly look for it.
No one wants to talk about Truffaut's shots, the boy running freely on the street, the frightened pigeons, and the cute faces full of innocence (I was really crazy about the cuteness of the children watching the puppet show! ), only after watching 400 Strikes on the big screen will you truly understand why it is the pioneering work of the French New Wave. There is not only one Antoine in this world, in Antoine, we will always see the part that overlaps with ourselves.
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