Analysis of "The Four Hundred Strikes"
Summary: "Les Quatre Cents Coups" is the first feature film directed by François Truffaut, which was released in France in 1959. The director adheres to the film proposition of the flow of life and shoots the most unconventional films in a traditional way, giving the film a strong "semi-autobiographical" style. The film tells the story of a boy named Antoine who finds freedom in his struggle to grow up in a troubled family and a deformed society. The film is known as the pioneering work of the new wave film genre, and it is also the most representative work of the French New Wave period. It won the 12th Cannes Best Director Award and was nominated for the 32nd Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. It is an artistic An immortal monument in film history.
Keywords: youth cynicism, hesitant youth
1. Introduction to the film
Title: Les Quatre Cents Coups
Type: Drama
Screenwriter: François Truffaut, Marcel Murthy
Director: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Claire Muriel, Albert Remy
Length: 101 minutes
Release date: June 3, 1959
Synopsis: The young Antoine is wandering in the world. Facing a rigid and conservative school education system, a fragmented family situation and a cruel and cold society, he can't find a way out no matter what. When he was skipping class and playing, he encountered his mother cheating, and he lied to the teacher about his mother's death in an attempt to get away with it. After the lie was exposed in public, he ran away from home. When he was renting at his friend Rene's house, he was desperate to steal the typewriter from his stepfather's company due to lack of money. In the correctional center, Antoine fled while everyone was moving. The whistle sounded behind him. He ran faster than ever and ran to the beach.
2. Type Analysis
teen crime movies
The film revolves around the confrontation between young Antoine's heart and the outside world, showing him wandering on the road of growth under the combined effect of three environments: a school with rigid dogma, an egoistic family, and a cruel and realistic society represented by police superintendents. , which embodies an individual who has fallen into a situation of alienation and absurdity trying to resist and pursue freedom in an environment of normative indifference. No one cares about his youthful troubles. He can only cope with external life with cynicism, from immorality to crime. His mark of Cain is also burned with the burning portrait of Balzac.
character design
Rebels and Punishers are the theme of binary opposition in the film. The protagonist Antoine, as a typical figure of a rebel, faces the pressure and interception of the punishers from three aspects, and at the same time, he is also a combination of contradictions. The confinement from the family is shown through the roles of the two parents, both of whom are egoists, the mother is lustful and cheating with the boss, and the stepfather sends him to the police station to get rid of his parenting obligations. The estrangement in the school is represented by the teacher, whose rigid teaching methods and wanton manipulation of power all force the protagonist to flee. The chilling of the social environment is reflected in the form of group portraits. The police superintendents are the prostitutes in the shelter, the discipline of the detention center who is slapped at will, Rene's mother who drinks all day and father who gambles on horses. Tick and write together into this absurd drama on earth.
plot direction
The young Antoine was forced to truant by a rigid and rigid school, he lied about the death of his mother, was forced to leave his home by a divided family, he stole a typewriter, and was forced to escape prison by a cruel labor camp. From lies to crime, his youth In this invisible or visible prison, he either actively or passively wrote his own ending in a cynical manner. In the end, he ran to the long-awaited seaside, but turned and stared at the camera, leaving the youth's confusion to the viewers.
3, paragraph detailed analysis
(1) The Eiffel Tower was photographed along the track from different streets and angles in Paris, France. The streets are empty, the trees on the street are twisted and dry, the buildings are dense and airtight, and there are statues of Napoleon's Eastern Expeditions standing beside the streets. ⎡Soundtrack "Les 400 Coups"⎦
[plot point] explain the background of the story
[Analysis] The landmark building is used to explain that the story takes place in Paris, France, and the withered tree trunk is used to explain the time is about winter. The long shot moves slowly from the perspective of a bystander, setting the tone of the film's dark and depressing tone. In the same era as Napoleon, France at this time also experienced the collapse of the current order after World War II and the imminent imminence of new life, and the plight of everyone's soul appeared.
(2) A teenager was leaning in front of the desk to write. He put down his pen and took out an album of sexy girls from the desk, glanced at it, and passed the album forward.
The whole class was pretending to study, and the teacher sat at the desk reading the newspaper. The book was circulated quickly, and finally reached Antoine Duinel, who was wearing a dark turtleneck sweater.
Antoine glanced at the picture book and drew a beard on it with a pen. Just as he was about to move forward, the teacher looked up and noticed his small movements. He took off his glasses and continuously tapped the desk to ask him to hand in the picture book and then stand in the corner.
Antoine walked to the corner and was blocked by a small square blackboard. Soon he leaned out from the right side of the blackboard to pinch the bridge of his nose and make a face.
The teacher put down the picture book and stood up to announce that there was still one minute to wrap up the book. The whole class expressed their dissatisfaction in unison. He ordered "keep quiet" and walked off the podium.
[Plot point] The protagonist appears in the school environment to shape
[Analysis] The whole class is pretending to study, which makes people intuitively feel the ills of the times - people lose their original beliefs, question rationality, materialism and nihilistic pessimism prevail, and human beings face the dual crisis of spirituality and survival in an absurd world. In an embarrassing situation, I have to fall into nothingness and choose to enjoy the world, and the sense of absurdity goes hand in hand here. And Antoine is just one of the ordinary members, his story is the epitome of the whole French in this period.
The quiet command of the teacher in the face of the whispered protests of the whole class highlights the absolute authority of the teacher in the school environment, and in the face of the institutional pressure the teacher represents, the boys circulate the sexy girl picture book, which both shapes the school's oppressive environment and The boring life also reflected the general mental poverty of teenagers at that time.
The teacher and Antoine occupy two ends of the classroom respectively, and the opposing relationship between the two is directly shown here.
Antoine's dark-colored pullover has never been replaced, which not only reflects the embarrassment of his material life, but also serves as an important tool for the character modeling of the film.
Add beards to the movie stars in the album, and the ignorant impulse towards sex that is unique to adolescence is vividly reflected through the transformation of the girl's bad taste, and when he is punished, he uses a self-deprecating way to steal a face, accurately sketching Antoine Sensitive self-esteem.
(3) Everyone was writing with their heads down. Only Rene stared at the ceiling looking for inspiration for the composition. The teacher patted a boy on the head to express encouragement and then announced the handover. The group leader stood up and started to rewind the paper, René found inspiration and started writing, and the other students put down their pens. At the teacher's order, Morrissey was able to take away Rene's homework, and Rene turned around and whispered to him as a bastard.
After finishing the homework, the teacher announced that the get out of class was over, and everyone rushed out of the classroom. When Antoine was about to take the opportunity to escape, the teacher pointed at the corner and called back loudly. The teacher walked out of the classroom and closed the door. The sound of students playing games came from outside the window. Antoine walked back to the corner angrily and threw up the eraser tied to the blackboard.
Outside the classroom, some students gathered to discuss, teachers and colleagues were chatting, some students were strangling their necks, some were playing with shovels, and two students were fighting.
Antoine raised his hand to write on the wall and read it out. On the playground, the teacher stopped the two boys from fighting, dragged them to the middle of the yard by the back of their necks, and ordered them not to rest for three days.
Antoine put down his pen to examine his essay.
The students ran back to the classroom, and Rene ran behind the small blackboard. Morrissey followed closely, looked at it and turned around to greet the classmates. Antoine pushed Morrissey away, and the students gathered around the small blackboard. The teacher walked to the back of the blackboard and the students dispersed. He took out Antoine and pushed him to the front of the blackboard. He put his hands in his pockets and looked around. He satirized Antoine who wanted to be a poet but abused his syntax and made him return to his seat.
The teacher announced the dictation of "The Hare" and stood up to face the blackboard. The whole class opens the homework book and bows their heads to prepare to write. The teacher turned around and ordered Antoine to find water and wipe off the writing on the wall. Antoine put down his pen and walked out of the classroom with his head down.
The teacher read the verse aloud as he wrote, and a boy with disheveled hair kept tearing and soiling the workbook and rewriting it, leaving only a few thin pages. The teacher turned around several times.
Antoine stepped forward with the water basin, raised his hand to signal to the students, and acted as a horn behind the teacher. Everyone held back their laughter, and Antoine quickly ran back to the small blackboard. The teacher randomly named a person's name to criticize.
Antoine began to wipe the verses he had written.
The whole class got excited when the teacher said "la maîtresse", imitating lovers hugging, blowing kisses and whistling. The teacher threw chalk angrily after criticizing anyone who was not recognized at random, lamenting that the class was all cowards.
Antoine did not dare to go back to his seat. The teacher scolded him for soiling the walls, and threatened to invite his parents, waving a book and fanning it to the ground.
[Plot point] The deputy protagonist appears in the confrontation between Antoine and the school
[Analysis] With the whole class bowing their heads and writing quickly while Rene raised his head to meditate, it shows that he has his own thinking about literature, not simply rebelling and not writing. Antoine's poems on the wall imply that he retains his love for literature and the literati-style self-pity in the face of unfair treatment, paving the way for his unconscious imitation of Balzac's "Quest for the Absolute". The shackles of the school system and the yearning for the literary world more or less paved the way for the possibility of their friendship.
The teacher's mandatory turn over shows the rigidity and rigidity of the education system, and his two orders not to allow students to rest reflects the arbitrary power of the teachers in the school. And when he turned his back to the class, he asked Richel who allowed him to change his seat while writing. He asked Antoine to clean the walls in class out of a revenge mentality. He did not put the education of the students in the first place, but put personal feelings above the original intention of education. It is also a manifestation of the distortion of the school's power. The right to speak has not fulfilled the corresponding responsibilities.
(4) The relief above the school gate reads: Freedom, Equality, Fraternity. Students left the school in groups of three and five, and a woman in a headscarf waited at the door. Antoine and René discuss stealing money from their parents and turn left together after they leave the school. René pointed out that Morrissey's new glasses were bought with money from the family, and Morrissey didn't deny that he shrugged and walked away. They turned around and scolded Morris several times as they turned back and warned him to be careful.
The two turned right and sat down on a bench on the street, scolding the teacher for what a jerk. The two got up and shook hands and went home separately.
At home, Antoine added charcoal to the coal stove, turned around and wiped his hands on the curtains, then took out the money from the crevice of the cupboard, put it in his pocket, opened the door of the room and walked in.
There was a small bed in the door. Antoine sat in front of his mother's dressing mirror at the end of the bed and combed his hair in front of the mirror. He picked up a large bottle of perfume and smelled it. He fiddled with the eyelash curler and threw it on the table. after leaving.
Antoine took out the three dishes from the cupboard and placed them on the dining table, followed by cups and cutlery. He went to the hall, picked up his schoolbag, went back to the dining table and sat down, removed the plate and took out the homework sheet and started writing. Hearing someone entering the door, he quickly put away his homework.
In the hall, Mrs. Doirnell took off her fur coat and hung it on the coat rack, and went into the kitchen. Antoine took out the workbook, and Madame Duinel asked him where the flour was. He replied that he had forgotten. Madame Duinel quipped that he was no wonder why his grades were so poor, sat in the hall with her legs crossed and took off her stockings, ordered Antoine to get her slippers and go buy flour at once.
Madame Doirnell looked in the mirror in the hall.
[plot point] family environment shaping
[Analysis] The "Freedom, Equality, Fraternity" engraved on the main entrance of the school directly points out the deformity of the school environment, which is ironic: students have no personal freedom in the school, teachers do not treat students equally, and students and teachers do not respect each other.
Stealing money leads to the topic of "stealing", and a series of stories in the second half, such as stealing milk, staying at René's house and running away secretly, are all related to it, and it runs through the whole film. And this topic showed and intensified the conflict between the two and Morrissey, paving the way for Morrissey to expose his truancy to Antoine's family.
Antoine’s curious play with his mother’s makeup reflects his childishness, emphasizing his juvenile identity, reducing the viewer’s guilt of empathizing with his experience, and allowing the viewer to empathize.
In contrast to Antoine's immutable pullovers, Madame Doirnell's elegant and sumptuous fur coats showed her egocentric character. Through the two shots of bare legs and looking in the mirror, it satisfies the viewer's voyeuristic desire and at the same time alludes to his unbridled character. And it blames anything on Antoine's poor academic performance, showing the viewer an image of an irresponsible and ignorant mother.
(5) Antoine ran across the street with a bag to the grocery store. There were two women in front of him talking about female childbirth. He stood there a little embarrassed.
Antoine went upstairs with his father. The father taught him not to be angry with his mother and explained to him that he was holding a fog lamp for rally racing. He took a little flour from a flour bag and sprinkled it on the bridge of Antoine's nose. The two laughed. to enter.
Madame de Doinel refused to give Antoine the meal, and Doinel declared that his mother should give it to Antoine at the same time. Madame Doinelle ordered Antoine to quit her homework, and Duinel helped.
Doinel finds out that Antoine has a new pen, and Antoine's excuse is exchanged, and Duinel is skeptical.
Madame Duinel reminded Antoine to clean up the dishes, and the couple began to discuss the fact that the wife's cousin and wife were pregnant again, and discussed letting Antoine go to summer camp on vacation.
Doinel and Antoine unfurled the club's flag, Madame Doinel offered to rest at her girlfriend's house on Sunday and ordered Antoine to sleep. Antoine's parents were arguing next door as he laid out his sleeping bag, and patriotic songs and cries of children sounded as he hurried downstairs to take out the trash.
In the morning, Madame Duinel woke Antoine. Antoine took off his ripped pajamas and went into the bathroom. As he wiped the water vapor from the mirror, the teacher's words that he had soiled the walls echoed in his ears. trance yourself. The father came in, smoking a cigarette, with a ripped sock in his hand, and asked his wife about buying a mattress for the child. Antoine took the bread and went out quickly.
[Analysis] Although he dared to scribble on the girl in the album, Antoine still has the shyness of teenagers towards the gender when faced with the private topic of female production in real life. Just like his peers, he has a childlike side. Compared with his previous actions, he shows his cute side.
The fight between Duinel and Antoine shows that the relationship between the two is closer than that of mother and son. He found that Antoine had a slight change in the new pen, and paid Antoine to buy a mattress, showing that His knowledge and concern for Antoine's daily life.
When the Duinel and his wife discussed the vacation, they boarded Antoine in a summer camp, showing that both of them regarded Antoine as a burden in essence, and created a family environment in which the two parents focused on their own enjoyment and neglected their children's education. The quarrel between the two is the embodiment of the disintegration of the family.
Madame Duinel's statement that she was going to rest at her girlfriend's house hinted at the possibility of her marital infidelity, and it's easy to think that her fur coat was probably bought with the money she bought for Antoine's mattress.
(6) Antoine ran out of the apartment, and Rene stopped Antoine and approached slowly. Antoine, worried that he would be late, trotted forward, and Rene took him by the arm and led him into another path. The two joked on the road, and René asked Antoine to hide his schoolbag in the corner of the porch like he did. After the two bought movie tickets, they went to the cafe to play the bullet machine and teased the driver in the middle of the road. ⎡Soundtrack: Cheerful Jazz⎦
Antoine and a few people entered the drum through a small door. He leaned back against the wall of the barrel and put the two into his pockets. A group of tourists watched Antoine above. The barrel begins to spin, Antoine laughs against the barrel wall and slowly moves upside down, the audience turns towards him
Whistling, he made several unsuccessful attempts to lift his head off the barrel wall. The barrels stopped, and Rene laughed.
The two crossed the square, and Antoine found her mother in a fur coat kissing a strange man at the entrance of the subway station. Madame Duinel found Antoine truant and turned away from her lover. Antoine asserted that she did not dare to tell her father that the two had run away from the lovers.
Maurice hid behind a tree and watched Antoine and René take their bags.
Rene asked Antoine to imitate Madame Doinelle's handwriting to sign a fake note.
Antoine went home in a fidgety mood and wrote bad notes one after another, and he threw them all into the furnace and burned them. Duinel entered the door and explained that his mother would come back later for the year-end summary with the boss. Antoine smiled and nodded, and the two entered the kitchen.
Doinel put on an apron, and while breaking eggs, he taught Antoine to learn to take the initiative, and comforted his mother that he loved him. Antoine laughed when he heard it.
Duinel asked Antoine where his Michelin Guide was, and Antoine denied taking it.
Antoine lay in his sleeping bag with his eyes open and pretended to be asleep when he heard movement at the door. Madame Doinelle stretched her legs across the sleeping bag into the bedroom. He heard the two arguing in a low voice to shirk Antoine's educational responsibility. His mother said he liked to lie.
[Plot point] The confrontation between Antoine and his mother who escaped from school
[Analysis] The soundtrack of the cafe scene is brisk jazz, which is one of the few bright plots in the whole film. It properly shows the novelty and ease of the two when they played truancy, weakened the criticism of Antoine's truancy, and made the audience feel the same. Feeling this joy, I agree with the protagonist's behavior.
I think the scene of spinning the barrel is very delicate. Antoine and the other tourists can only stick to the wall of the barrel under the centrifugal effect, but only he tried his best to change his posture and kept trying to raise his head, but was thrown back to the original place several times. . This is more or less a metaphor for being in the environment of rapid recovery and development of society at that time. Everyone was crushed by the centrifugal force of the times. Maybe there are people like Antoine who try to rebel and want to be separated. In the end, the individual cannot resist and Silence.
Morrissey's peeps laid the groundwork for the subsequent failure of Antoine's truancy incident.
Antoine did not change his face and denied that he had taken the "Michelin Guide", confusing the audience's trust.
Antoine broke his mother's affair while his father still comforted his mother to love him. Here, his laugh is both a mockery of his father's indifference, and an implied hatred of his mother's disregard for the family. Later, he heard his mother expose his habit of lying behind his back, and the confrontation between the two came to the fore.
Duinel said "I gave him his last name" when arguing with his wife, which implies that he is Antoine's stepfather.
(7) Antoine ran down the street to the school, and Morrissey ran into the corridor of Antoine's apartment. Mrs. Doirnell fiddled with her hair at the table, and Doirnell blamed her for the housework, and the two quarreled again. Maurice used the pretext of visiting Antoine to reveal to Doinel that he was truant, and Madame Duinel used Antoine's lies to wash away the suspicion of knowing her own knowledge.
Rene asked Antoine to make an excuse for a serious matter, and the two ran to the school separately, with Morrissey jumping across the street and running to the school.
The students gathered by the wall as the whistle blew, and the teacher grabbed Antoine, who was trying to sneak in, and asked him the reason for his leave. Antoine excused his mother's death and couldn't write a fake note. The teacher was stunned and took down his pipe, patted his head kindly and comforted him, and asked him to return to the team. Rene asked Antoine what excuse Antoine had for not answering.
The teacher wiped his glasses on the podium and asked Douville to memorize the text "Hare", even if someone whispered to remind him that he was still wrong. Antoine sat quietly in his seat, and immediately stood up after being called by the teacher. After the teacher apologized, Simono who was behind him continued to recite.
The teacher took off his glasses and looked at the door, got up and walked out of the door to talk to a few people. Antoine looked in the direction of the door in fear, covering his mouth with his hands, while the surrounding classmates looked at him with schadenfreude. The teacher and the principal were standing outside the door. He opened the door and reached out and tapped Antoine. When Antoine walked to the threshold, Duinel grabbed the collar of his pullover and slapped him twice. Antoine walked slowly back to his seat, and the teacher demanded severe punishment, believing that this was the fault of his parents.
Antoine and Rene walked down the stairs. He was determined to no longer live with his parents but had nowhere to go. Rene said he had an idea. The two met in an hour and went home separately. Antoine was walking very slowly.
The two walked into Uncle René's old printing factory, full of junk machinery roaring, Antoine with a white sweater under his arm. The two found a corner. Rene made a bed with a woven bag and a stack of waste paper. Antoine changed into a sweater and asked Rene to keep his schoolbag and give it to himself when he went to school tomorrow. The two leave.
Doinel read the letter left by Antoine to his wife at home, and Madame Duinel wondered why his excuse was the death of his mother and not his father.
Antoine was awakened by the chatter of workers coming to work, and he sneaked out of the factory. As he was walking down the street, a woman chased a puppy begging him to catch it, and a man took the initiative to whistle to help the woman catch the dog and drive Antoine away.
Antoine passed a shop with "Merry Christmas" on the glass door. He stopped and walked, raised his collar. "Soundtrack: Long Recorder"
A milkman put four cartons of milk at the door of a restaurant. Antoine hid in the dark and waited for him to leave. He deliberately passed the milk cartons. He looked around to make sure that no one was there. He took a bottle of milk and hid it in his jacket and ran away. He walked to the dark side of the street, uncorked the bottle, took a sip, stopped to look around, and then drank the milk and threw the bottle into the sewer. "Soundtrack: Crisp Piano Sounds"
He walked into a waterless fountain, he went to the upper pool to break the ice and wash his face with water. He ran out of the square.
[plot point] escape from the family's first theft - success
[Analysis] Antoine's reason for skipping class was the death of his mother, which echoes the fact that he knew that his mother betrayed his family and cheated, and inadvertently revealed his unfamiliarity and disapproval of his mother.
The teacher attributed the reason for Antoine's lie to inadequate family education, which once again highlighted the irresponsibility of school teachers, and also asked us viewers: Who is responsible for this education? Mutual shirk between the school and the family also pushed Antoine further and further on what he called a "wrong path".
The episode of Antoine stealing milk is the first in the film to explicitly describe his theft. The long shot puts the viewer in a tense atmosphere of being exposed at any time. Antoine's suggestion of stealing money at home to stealing in society should theoretically be criticized. But the director also set the premise that he can't get enough food after running away from home. We also experienced Antoine's panic and fear, which aroused the sympathy of the audience. This phenomenon is very wonderful. And Antoine's first theft in society ended successfully, which as an incentive event also foreshadowed the plot of the next typewriter theft, adding rationality.
Before going to school, Antoine still uses sewage to wash his face when he breaks ice Rene handed Antoine the schoolbag, and the two strolled across the yard past the teacher and his colleagues. The teacher asked Antoine if he was taught a lesson by his parents last night. Antoine denied it. The teacher waved him away and discussed with his colleagues the irresponsibility of the parents now.
The teacher turned around and blew his whistle when he saw the students fighting in twos and threes. Antoine and Rene were sitting on the steps.
The English teacher sat at the desk, and Rene stood at the blackboard. When the English teacher asked a question for Rene to answer, Rene couldn't pronounce the English pronunciation of "father", so he sneered and walked away. English teacher shaved head little boy stood up to answer questions and correct pronunciation.
The principal knocked at the door, and the English teacher walked to the door while correcting the pronunciation. Antoine was called to the door, and the class waited sideways. The boy sat down with relief. The teacher asked a boy with glasses to manage the class on his behalf, and the boy walked to the podium. The class turns to the podium.
Madame Duinel complained in her office that she could not educate Antoine, and the headmaster consoled her. Antoine walked in with her head down, Madame Doinelle kissed him on the cheek and shook him to make sure he was all right, and the teacher followed. After learning that Antoine slept in the printing workshop yesterday, she hugged Antoine tightly and told the principal that she didn't care about his grades and only cared about his behavior. The English teacher said it might be a physical problem.
Madame Duinel put her arms around Antoine and questioned him with concern, and the two crossed the street.
Madame Duinel wiped Antoine's body after taking a bath. She kissed Antoine's belly through the bath towel, Antoine bowed his head and said nothing. Antoine sat on the sleeping bag, and Madame Doinelle held his face and told him to go to her bedroom to rest.
Antoine took off the bath towel and got under the quilt. Mrs. Doirnell helped him put down the sheets, told her love story when she was young, and emphasized that her mother helped her keep the secret. Antoine reclined his head on his hands and listened carefully. Madame Duinel asked about the meaning of his letter, and Antoine shrugged and explained that it was his grades, stating that he wanted to drop out of school to make a living. Madame Duinel rejected the proposal and agreed to give Antoine a thousand francs for the next top five in the composition test, and reminded him not to tell his father anything.
[Plot point] Antoine and his mother ease up
[Analysis] The teacher asked whether Antoine was educated by his parents, not out of concern, but with a contemptuous attitude to sneer and sneer, deepening the contradiction between the two.
Faced with the question of "where is the father", Rene could not pronounce the word "father" correctly, which once again hinted at the identity of Dunoney's stepfather in the film, which was another reason why Antoine lingered.
It was not until Madame Dunoine stressed that Antoine could not tell her father and promised the prize money, that we suddenly realized that her previous claims of not caring about grades and having secrets with her mother were the foreshadowing of this. Her concern for Antoine and Showing weakness requires something in return - you can't tell her about her affair, and the relationship between mother and son is only temporarily eased by money interests, which makes people sigh.
(9) A physical education teacher with a slightly fat physique, wearing a sports shirt and shorts, whistling from his mouth, led two columns of male students out of the school gate and walked quickly along the street.
He ran to the head of the team, stretched his arms, and the four students at the end of the team ran into the next corridor, and then two more students slipped away.
The shaggy-haired boy snapped his fingers as he left the line and crossed the street, chanting words and clapping to the beat of the street.
Antoine dragged Rene away from the team and walked across the street.
When the teacher crossed the street, he waved to remind the students to pay attention, and the four students hid behind the truck on the street.
Across the street, three more students ran into another alley.
The team continued to move forward, two students hid in the cafe, three students ran away in the opposite direction, and three students ran into the doorway.
The physical education teacher continued to run forward and stretch, leaving only two students behind.
[Analysis] This paragraph pays tribute to the clips in Jean Viggo's "Practice Zero", adding a lot of fun to the depressing atmosphere of the whole film. The students were freed from the cage of the school and fled everywhere, which also emphasized the dullness of the school environment.
(10) Antoine was lying on the sofa at home, smoking while reading Balzac's novel "The Quest for the Absolute", flicking the ashes in the window. At the end of the novel, "Archimedes shouted: I know, I found it", Antoine looked at the ceiling and put out the cigarette.
Antoine glued a portrait of Balzac in the cupboard and closed the curtain.
The teacher wrote the composition requirements on the small blackboard. Antoine looked forward, and the words of Archimedes rang in his ears, and he began to lower his head and write seriously.
[Plot point] Antoine and the school ease relations
(11) Antoine lifts the curtain and lights and places a candle in front of Balzac's portrait, he draws the curtain.
During dinner, Duinel was asking about the boss's affair story, and asked about the "Michelin Guide", and suggested that something seemed to be on fire. Antoine pondered, suddenly raised his head and jumped off the table and chair.
Antoine used a pillow to put out the curtain that was pulled and lit and ran away. He brought a basin of water but poured it on his father. After being reprimanded, his father grabbed his collar and pushed it against the wall. He explained that the candle was lit for Balzac, and Madame Doinelle interceded for him.
Doinel turned on the lighter and held it in front of Antoine's face, threatening him to do what he said or send him to the Army School.
Madame Doinelle suggested that the three of them go to the movie "Paris Belongs to Us" and reassured her husband Antoine that she wanted to surprise them. She put her arms around Antoine and was about to go out, when Duinel found that her coat was missing a few buttons.
After watching the movie, the three walked out of the theater holding hands. Antoine walked between them, very happy.
The streets were full of cars, lights flashing, pedestrians shuttled, and the three people in the black car were chatting and laughing.
At the entrance of the corridor, Duinel smiled and gave a military salute, pretending that there were enemy troops inside. Antoine smiled, and the three went upstairs together. Doinel raised one leg of the lady and asked Antoine if she was beautiful. Madame Doirnell turned and hit him on the head, and Doirnell hit him back with her hat. The three ran upstairs and laughed again.
After entering the door, Antoine stood at the door of the kitchen, his parents were hanging clothes, Madame Duinel reminded Antoine to take out the garbage, Antoine nodded and closed the door and went downstairs.
Mrs. Doirnell straightened her hair in the mirror and explained to her husband that she had said all the good things, and Doirnell joked by touching her chest behind her back.
Antoine went downstairs with the garbage with a smile on his face.
[Plot point] Temporary relaxation of family relations
[Analysis] Truffaut specially arranged a three-person movie scene here. In addition to the movie obsession and the most direct reason that he is the producer of "Paris Belongs to Us", the movie itself is also related to the story. Meaning is closely related. The film depicts the outsiders and the fearful wanderers in the night fog, submerged in the deadly silent Paris, the whole city seems to be a ghost-like world, there is no clear truth, only the game of self and the hesitation in the heart, which is similar to Antoine. Wan's situation coincides, and as a rebel he can fight and will continue to fight because, as the French poet Charle Pégie said in the opening scene, Paris belongs to no one.
Doirnell's socks have holes and his coat lacks buttons, showing Mrs. Doirnell's disregard for her family.
Duinel threatened Antoine to do what he said, and it was conditional for Antoine to be good to Antoine. Mrs. Doirnell helped Antoine. In addition to the guilty conscience that was revealed to be cheating, Antoine was also required to change as a premise. Contrasted with the joy of Antoine when he went downstairs to take out the garbage, it made people feel that he was still innocent like a child. As the most tender segment in the whole film, why is it so short-lived, when the viewers are sentimental about it, Mrs. Doirnell's words are like a blow to the head, and even this stolen warmth has conditions.
(12) The teacher lowered his head and corrected the composition on the podium, while Morisser stood in his place and recited the text. The man at the back table took out his new glasses from his bookcase and passed them back to the tables of Antoine and Rene. The two picked up their pens and smashed the lenses hard. Some of the lenses shattered on the table. outgoing. The glasses were passed to the front row, and the two students filled the diving glasses with ink, and finally threw them on Morrissey's table. Morrissey glanced at the glasses and smiled.
Morrissey opened his mouth in surprise when he sat down after reciting the text to find the broken and dirty glasses on the table.
The teacher picked up a piece of paper and threw it down to name Antoine, saying that his "The Quest for the Absolute" got the worst F grade, and that he wrote Balzac's "A Mysterious Case" at the expense of his grandfather. Antoine denies plagiarism. The teacher angrily read Antoine's composition aloud and satirized him with the ending sentence "I found it".
Antoine folded his hands on his chest and continued to deny. The teacher handed the composition to Columbe in the front row and asked him to take Antoine to the principal's office. Columbella walks Antoine.
The shaggy-haired boy in the hallway was digging out the pockets of a row of coats when he heard the sound and ran away immediately.
Antoine picked up his jacket and pushed Columbe away at the corner of the stairs. Columbus went after him.
The teacher sighs, and René says he can prove that Antoine didn't plagiarize, and the teacher jumps up angrily and points at the door to let him out. Rene argued it was illegal, and the teacher grabbed him by the collar and shoved him out of the classroom.
In the corridor, Rene was wearing his coat, and the teacher threw his schoolbag at him, and the contents of the bag were scattered all over the floor. Columbe returned to say that Antoine had escaped, and the teacher spread his hands in despair.
[Plot point] Antoine breaks with the school
[Analysis] Morrissey's diving glasses were destroyed by the whole class in turn, which not only showed his unpopularity but also showed the indiscriminate evil nature of adolescent boys.
"A Mysterious Case" in "Human Comedy" uses an ordinary kidnapping case to reflect the political struggle of politicians to play with power during the French Revolution. On the other hand, in the movie, the teacher played with the authority of the teacher and "kidnapped" Antoine and René Out of the classroom, quite ironic.
(13) Antoine and Rene were walking on a deserted street, Rene put his schoolbag under the railing, and the two leaned against the low wall to discuss their future. Antoine pointed out that he wanted to go to the beach. Rene invited him to live at his house, Antoine smiled and handed the bag to Rene, and the two walked into a dilapidated villa.
Rene took Antoine and quietly pushed the door into the room. Antoine looked at the horse in the center of the room in shock. He touched the stuffed horse, looked up at the ceiling and felt that the room was really big.
Rene took the sheets and the trash basket off the sofa, explained to Antoine that his mother was a drinker, that his father bet on horses, and that no one would find out on the sofa, and suggested that the two must make money, Antoine agreed.
The two approached a door carefully, and the three cats were screaming on the bed. Rene probed to make sure no one was in the room and the two entered. Rene poured a key out of the vase, opened the box on the table, pulled out a few of the bills and put them back as they were. There were people upstairs, Rene and Antoine hiding in the curtains, the cat on the table watching them.
Rene's mother entered the door from the balcony and walked down the stairs. She smiled and repeated Rene's actions, took out all the money in the box and left. Rene led Antoine into another door.
With a comb between the locks, Rene quietly closed the door and the two ran out of the building.
The two ran down the long stairs, teasing the priest with the title "Ms." The two ran back to the building.
René and his father are having dinner, and his father, Mr. Bigger, complains that René's mother is deliberately and staggered at home. While his father went to the kitchen to pick up the fruit, Rene moved the minute hand of the clock forward for ten minutes, grabbed the baguette and cheese and delivered it to Antoine, who was reading on the sofa in the bedroom, and quickly ran back to the dining room to sit down.
Mr. Biget returned to his seat and handed the fruit to Rene, when the clock chimed at half past nine, and Mr. Biget explained that it was time for him to go to the club, and immediately put on his coat and left.
Rene pocketed the fruit, stepped forward, set the pointer back, and ran to the bedroom.
Rene threw his coat to Antoine and urged him to go out and watch a newsreel.
The two watched the movie attentively in the cinema, and Antoine blew the bubblegum.
The two came out of the movie theater, and they ran away quickly after Rene tore a promo photo of a sexy girl.
The two pushed the door out of the toilet cubicle at the same time. Antoine hid the alarm clock on the table in his coat and stole it. The two pushed the door and left the bathroom. "Ms" is written on the bathroom door.
The two walked out of a cafe, the alarm clock in Antoine's arms suddenly rang, and the two ran away quickly along the street.
The two were playing chess in the bedroom. Antoine was smoking a cigarette. He was thirsty and wanted to drink water, so he leaned over and picked up a wine bottle, but the bottle was empty. Antoine made a good roll, he whistled and spit the smoke ring into the empty wine bottle.
There was a knock on the door, and the two fluttered the blankets in a panic to try to drive away the smoke. Antoine hid by the bed.
Mr. Biget walked in, smelled the smoke, and said that he would deduct the three cigars from Rene's pocket money and remove the clothes that were piled on top of the stuffed horse. He saw Antoine's feet at the foot of the bed and told him to turn off the lights and go to bed.
Antoine and Rene laughed on the balcony and attacked passersby with a blowpipe. Rene asked Antoine to give him the Michelin Guide and tore off a few pages. Antoine said that the money from selling the stuffed horse could go to the seaside Business.
Rene and Antoine led a little girl with short hair through the woods.
The puppet show "Little Red Riding Hood" was being performed on the stage, and the children in the audience were either shocked or happy. While watching, Rene and Antoine discussed going to Doirnell's office to steal a typewriter. The children applauded at the end.
【Plot point】Second theft - success
【Analysis】As a kind of borrowing from afar, the important thing is not really going to the sea, but an urgent need to get out of the status quo.
René's parents lived in the same house but never saw each other due to alcoholism and horse betting, extending the same family breakdown as Antoine to the wealthy. The poor sell their bodies for money, and the rich sell their souls when they have money. They don't know how much time it takes. It really constitutes a human comedy, full of absurdity.
The previous whistles were all issued by adults, but Antoine learned and used them unconsciously when playing chess. It was his urgency to want to be an adult, and it was also a reminder to the audience before his behavior turned worse.
Stealing an alarm clock is Antoine's second theft in society. Compared with the first time, the purpose of stealing milk was to satisfy his stomach. This time, the theft is completely meaningless and purposeless. behavior as a daily habit. If the first theft was out of hunger, it would be forgiven, and the director kindly arranged for him to escape smoothly, but this second theft is indeed intolerable. A warning was issued.
The previous "Michelin Guide" finally appeared, and the audience suddenly realized that Antoine was good at lying, making him feel ashamed of his previous sympathy for Antoine, and to face Antoine's true vicious side.
(14) Antoine and René walk across the street into an office building.
Antoine walked carefully and slowly up the stairs, looking around to find that there was no one inside. He bent down and got into the office, walked lightly into a typewriter, looked up again to confirm that no one was there, picked up the typewriter and walked out quickly, looked back many times, and ran down the stairs.
Antoine ran out of the office building with the typewriter and Rene, turned left and ran into the street, startling a flock of pigeons.
As they descended the stairs of the subway station, Antoine handed the typewriter to Rene to hold.
The two came out of the subway station, and Antoine took the typewriter back and nearly ran into a man. A short, stout man with a cigarette stepped forward to strike up a conversation, and the two of them ignored him and left. They continued their brisk walk down the street and bumped into a few passers-by. Antoine turned his head and apologized after bumping into a man.
The two walked into another street, and the two men chatted by the side of the road. They passed by slowly, and Rene turned to confirm whether the man was interested in buying. The two walked back again, one of the men said yes, and the three agreed on a price. The man took the typewriter, and the three of them walked a few steps down the street, then Antoine and Rene turned right away.
The man walked into the pawnshop, and the two walked into the cafe across the street, raising the curtains to monitor.
The man hurried out holding the typewriter, looking left and right to walk away. Antoine and Rene quickly opened the door to catch up.
The two demanded the return of the typewriter. The man explained that he could not receive it without a receipt, but asked for payment. The two explained that he had no money. The man was about to leave with the typewriter in his hand.
A policeman approached, and the man left after returning the typewriter to Antoine.
The two walked along the bridge, Antoine regretting that his father would know, and Rene shiing away that he had come up with the idea. Antoine was about to put the typewriter on the ground because it was too heavy, but Rene caught it. Antoine decided to disguise and return the typewriter.
The two walked down the street. Rene refused to go in and return it. They walked across the street. Antoine put on his jacket, tie and hat, and walked forward with his typewriter in his arms.
Antoine bent down and ran to the office with the typewriter in his hands. A security guard in the elevator happened to stop on this floor and walked out. Antoine was about to put the typewriter back on the table when the security guard grabbed him by the collar and took off his hat. The security guard recognized him as Duinel's son and took out the phone to call his father.
Rene waits in a lingerie store. Doinel pulled Antoine by the collar and pushed him away, educating him as he went, and stopping to ask him to say goodbye to Rene.
Doinel carried Antoine in the crowd, and people kept looking back.
The two walked to the door of the police station. Two police officers were chatting and pointed to the officer's office to Duinel.
Duinel and Antoine sat opposite the police officer. Duinel said that he could not educate Antoine. The officer expressed understanding, and Antoine stared at Duinel.
Antoine looked at the ceiling, and Duinel put the hat back on Antoine's head. The officer called a policeman and asked him to take Antoine to make a note stating that the crime was vagrancy and theft. Antoine took off his hat and the policeman kindly took him to another room.
Duinel expressed the hope to put Antoine under supervision. The police officer said that he could be sent to a labor camp, but asked his father to apply for a misdemeanor and give up custody. Duinel took a deep breath and agreed.
The police questioned Antoine about the theft as he typed.
Duinel put on a scarf as he went downstairs.
After reading Antoine's statement, the police removed the paper from the typewriter and placed it on the table for Antoine to sign. Antoine immediately signed his name. A policeman walked in and pushed Antoine downstairs, pressing Antoine's shoulders. He handed Antoine to an older policeman.
The police led Antoine through a dimly lit corridor into a cell with an Algerian man in it. The police opened the chains and locked Antoine in. Antoine sat down on a bench and the two discussed their crimes.
Two policemen are playing chess and one policeman is reading a newspaper. The Algerian slept on the bench, Antoine slept on the ground.
A policeman walked into the cell with three prostitutes. The Algerian stood up and gave up his seat. The police pulled Antoine out and placed him in a small cell next to him, where Antoine could only sit.
Antoine looked around the room, pulled his collar up to the base of his ears, crossed his arms over his chest, and leaned against the wall.
The officers took up their guns and released the prisoners individually from their cells, and the officers told Antoine to put on a jacket.
The suspects outside the police station stepped into the police car one by one, and Antoine finally got in the car. After the door was closed, the car moved forward. Antoine stared at the street behind him through the bars. There were no pedestrians on the road, the road was wet, and only the lights were shining.
Antoine held the iron railing with both hands, and the prostitute beside him was smoking. He looked around the street as the car passed a glittering nightclub, followed by a black sedan after the police car, then turned off the street, Antoine shedding tears.
[Plot point] Soul Night: The Third Steal - Failure
[Analysis] When Antoine and Rene finished stealing the typewriter, they ran and scared a group of pigeons. This group of pigeons is like a besieged city. Pigeons are also the last line of defense for a peaceful life. Are you heading for freedom, or are you heading for a worse possibility?
Antoine didn't think about his upcoming fate when he signed, and when he actually entered the cell, all he could use to defend himself was a raised collar.
The police car passed by a nightclub that was open for business. There were three prostitutes sitting in the car. One prostitute was smoking a cigarette leisurely. They were also one of the city's prostitutes. They were more used to it than Antoine. They may be his future.
Antoine sat in the car and looked back, the swaying lights were reflected on the ground, and the police car was followed by a black car that looked like his own home. It was not like the brief warmth of the family that night, but now he can only drive towards the unknown. region, and this change was caused by himself, I believe he has remorse in it.
(15) In a lengthy passageway in the cell, an administrator stood outside the iron gate and turned on the light.
Antoine stood at the table, and the manager opened an empty box and told him to empty his pockets. Antoine put the contents of his pockets into the box, took turns to place his feet on the table and took off the shoelaces, he unzipped his coat and took off his belt. Antoine bent over to sign, and a policeman put his hands on his shoulders and pushed him out of the office.
Antoine's perspective: skylight, cell wall, railing, closed window.
Antoine lay on the bed, pulled up the collar with his right hand to cover his face, stared at the ceiling, and closed his eyes.
dawn. Someone knocked on the door, Antoine lifted the quilt and walked towards the wooden door. Someone handed him a cup, he sat on the mattress with the cup, took a sip and spit it out immediately after smelling it, and splashed the water in the cup on the wall.
Antoine dug out an old newspaper from under the bed, he tore it into a long strip, took out finely shredded tobacco leaves from his pocket and carefully rolled it into a cigarette, then took out a match from the pocket and slid it across the sole of his shoe to light it. Cigarettes, after lying in bed quite satisfied.
Prison workers grab Antoine's finger and press the pad for fingerprints.
The photographer gave Antoine a square card with numbers written on it. After adjusting the camera with a cigarette in his mouth, he roughly turned Antoine's head to the left, and Antoine remained motionless.
Madame Duinel, who sat before the judge, claimed that Antoine could be brought home but he had to change. The judge said it was not his role. Madame Doirnell kept fiddling with her silk scarf.
The judge said he could be sent to a correctional centre, and Mrs. Doirnell asked if he could be kept by the sea, but the judge said there was nothing he could do. Madame Doirnell nodded and left.
[Analysis] Antoine's smoking here is different from the previous few times. The previous few times had the pleasure and excitement of smoking behind an adult's back, but this time he used smoking, the only thing he could do to cover up the same thing as before. own confusion.
In my opinion, there are two possible explanations for Madame Duinel's proposal to let Antoine go to the seaside. One is to make Antoine stay away from home so as to completely eliminate the hidden danger of her cheating being revealed. Towan may have mentioned her longing for the seaside in her daily life, and she hopes that he can do so. (Of course, the former is more likely in the movie, but I really prefer the latter. I think that maybe Madame Doirnell will have a little love for Antoine in her heart, and I also use this statement to paralyze My own. In fact, when he entered the juvenile detention center, what I thought more about was that the guilt did not end there, probably because Antoine himself was a reflection of myself, and my sympathy for him was also for my rebellion in my youth. Relief from the past.)
(16) The bell was rung, and below it was written the Juvenile Administration.
A line of uniformed boys came out of the building, and they stood still.
A guard walked out of the room, dragged a little boy away, and locked him and the two little girls next to him into the activity area surrounded by iron fences.
The boys in uniform spread out.
A boy sat next to Antoine and asked him why he was here. Antoine explained that it was because he had stolen a typewriter. The boy turned and pointed to a boy who said he had stolen a car tire. A group of boys throwing stones.
Two boys chat beside the statue, one boy stroking the statue's buttocks while describing his father's misdeeds.
Two guards pressed a ragged boy to open the prison door and walked in, and it was explained that he had escaped last week. A group of boys followed, Antoine walking in the middle. Disciplinary stepped forward to make them line up and lead them out of the square. The fugitive boy was held hostage and walked away.
The group of boys walked forward with the discipline, and they looked sideways at the three children in the iron railings watching them.
The boys walked to the restaurant in unison, and they all flew in when they were still a few meters away from the restaurant.
A fat woman was feeding the two guards. The boys broke into the door and ran to their seats to stand up. Antoine took the opportunity to steal a piece of bread and stuff it into his mouth.
The guard came in and closed the door to let everyone show the bread. After confirming that the first tabletop package was complete, he turned to the second table. He found that Antoine's bread was too passive to walk behind Antoine and let him take the cutlery and bread to the side.
The disciplinarian blows his whistle and the boys sit down to eat. He pointed to the shelf for Antoine to put down the cutlery. Antoine turned to discipline. The guard stretched out his palms towards Antoine and asked him whether he was left or right. Antoine pointed to his left hand. The supervisor carefully removed the watch and placed it on the shelf, then slapped Antoine suddenly. Fanned back, Antoine took the plate and bread and ate while standing.
night. Antoine and two boys deliver food to the escaped boy outside the cell. The boy who ran away said that he did not regret it because he was too happy, and said that he would run away if he had a chance. When the guard found them yelling, the boy ran away.
Antoine sat on a bench outside the psychotherapy room with a boy as a staff member brought in a boy. The boy next to him approached Antoine and taught him how to deal with the doctor. Antoine was slightly stunned, and was then taken into the treatment room by the man.
Antoine sat across from the female doctor, answering questions, rubbing his hands together, explaining why he still had the typewriter and how he had stolen his grandmother's money.
The female doctor said that Antoine's parents said he always lied, Antoine said that he sometimes lied, but even if he told his parents the truth, they thought they were lying, so they would rather lie.
The female doctor asked him why he didn't like his mother. Antoine wiped his face with his hands entangled. He explained to the doctor that he was fostered in a nurse's house when he was a child, and then lived in his grandmother's house. His mother often scolded him for no reason, and his parents often quarreled, and his father was not the biological father. He thanked his grandmother. .
The female doctor asked him if he had slept with a girl. Antoine looked up and smiled, saying that he didn't but his friends around him did. He once tried to find prostitutes, but they just scolded him away, and someone later introduced him to a North African girl who was not there when he went, so he left. All the while, Antoine was playing with the table with his hands.
[plot point] Antoine and the social break with the protagonist's identity explanation
[Analysis] The escaped boy appeared as the motivating event of Antoine's escape, providing reference and foreshadowing for Antoine's escape at the end.
When Antoine slapped Antoine for stealing bread ahead of schedule, Antoine's reaction was to accept that juvenile institutions were harsher than schools and families. In the family he can use his mother's handle, in the school he can play tricks on the teacher behind his back, but in the labor camp he has no possibility of rebelling, so we found that in the first two environments, the relationship between Antoine and him is First confrontation, then ease and finally break, but only in the juvenile detention center, the slap i
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