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400blows
The 400 Blows depicts a young boy's life as he experiences spaces that confine him like school and home, and spaces that bring him freedom like the streets of Paris, movies, and literature. The film explores themes of society acting as a prison, social breakdown like that of the boy's family, and the search for liberation from social and artistic conventions. It features revolutionary elements for its time like lack of narrative, self-referential nature, mobile camera work, and depiction of childhood.
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400blows
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- 3. Spaces of Confinement/ Entrapment • The school • The home • The jail • The camp
- 4. Spaces of Liberation/ Freedom • Paris (the street) • The movies • The puppet show • Literature (Balzac) • The cinema (the freedom of the camera)
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- 7. • Society asa prison • Social breakdown (breakdown of family) • Censorship • Social / artistic conventions as a prison (imitation as creation) • Algeria (war in Algeria) • Search for liberation / liberty (in life and art)
- 8. Revolutionary Elements • Absenceof narrative / plot • Self-referential nature of film • Mobility of the camera • Depiction of childhood • Eschewing of classical narration / editing • Use of non-traditional framing / shots