So, "Four Hundred Strikes" will cause most people who spent their childhood before the 1970s to tremble heavily, regardless of whether their childhood was spent in France or China.
Located in a stretched home in a dilapidated apartment building. Busy and anxious parents quarrel about money, children, housework, and anything that is not as good as their own wishes. Always be supported to do all kinds of chores at home and run errands for free. Squeeze some time from chores and do homework at the corner of the table. The teacher’s questions are always not answered in class. Words with the syllable th that can never be spoken badly in English. A good text must add the central idea, the main idea of the paragraph, expose some things, sing some things, and also recite some things. Others did bad things in the classroom without committing any crimes, but they would be severely punished if they were out of line. If you don’t finish your homework, you pretend to be sick or falsely claim that something happened at home, and disappear in a movie theater or a game hall. Sign the handwriting impersonating your parents. Steal money from parents' cabinet. Lies to teachers and parents, keeps deceiving them, trying to cover up another lie with one lie. One day I suddenly made up my mind to be a human again. I tried my best, but I accidentally got into trouble. I was shocked by the teacher: "If you do great things, unless all the people in the world die!"
List these details, I can't tell which ones. What is in the movie, what is in the memory, the same is that there is a sense of frustration.
Fortunately, mediocre as we are, despite all the blows and dissatisfaction, although we have been very depressed, thank goodness, we finally did not take a long detour to grow up. Finding a job, finding a lover, getting married and having children, you should be happy in the eyes of others. On weekends, taking children to study Mathematical Olympiad, recitation, piano, track and field, entrance exams can add points. More importantly, use these things to fill their leisure time and minds, and don’t do the absurd things we did before. During the holidays, I took them to travel and meet the world, and on the way back I started asking them to make essays. No matter how hard it is, I just want them to live happily than us, and don't have those childhood shadows or stains. However, how do we understand that life when they were not with us, and how to confirm that they are happier than our childhood?
Pulling away, back to the movie. The little boy in the movie, Antoine Dovarner, is not as lucky as us or our children. For example, our ordinary life has become an extravagant hope. After bearing all that we have endured, after his unfairness towards the teacher, the indifference of his parents and his anger, he left home on a cold winter night and lived in the house of his best friend-the best friend René is better than him. It’s not much better, the father is always coming and going, and the mother is always drunk. The two children only know how to play. Unfortunately, living in the capital city of Paris, they need francs, the more the better. They can't steal, it's a Gypsy business, they are only 13 years old, and they can't steal it either. Antoine remembered that the typewriter from his father's company should be valuable, and he stolen it smoothly, but it was not easy to replace it with cash. He was worried about making things bigger, and the two silly children went back to pay it back. As soon as he got the money, he went to the juvenile control house and was locked up with the real problem teenagers. He also wanted to be strong, but the tears of unsatisfactory tears flowed out of the teacher. He also wants to study hard, but he can't go back to class. He missed the cramped and indifferent home again, but his father—actually an adoptive father— said: I don't care about you.
At the end of the movie, he broke free of the barbed wire fence of the juvenile office and ran out. The world is so big and the sea is so wide. He runs hard and persistent, but where can Antoine go?
This is Truffaut's feature film debut, and it is also his own childhood. Fortunately, Truffau surpassed Antoine's destiny. With full of talent and love for movies, he met André Bazin, who was like a brother and father, and helped him at several points in Truffau’s life. Close.
So we have the admired Truffau master, France has a new wave, and there are so many interesting movies in the world.
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