The first Truffaut, I'm glad I got to watch it before I started high school. It begins with a wonderful Parisian street scene, with Antoine, a teenager, living with his mother and stepfather, sleeping in the kitchen, with no new clothes but an old black jacket. I like to read Balzac, but I paid tribute to him in the composition, but was called plagiarism by the teacher. I played truant on the pretext that my mother was seriously ill, but my mother appeared at the door of the classroom after school. Desires for a complete family and finds out that his mother is having an affair with someone. Such a turbulent childhood is a portrayal of Truffaut's childhood. There is an old French saying: If you are beaten four hundred times, even the naughty child becomes obedient. At the 399th hour, Antoine was already a free child. Unable to be controlled by the juvenile detention center, the troubled teenager broke free from the bondage in that worn black jacket and ran to the sea, to freedom, and to an unknown destiny. This one minute and twenty-seven second shot is extremely romantic.
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