didn’t respond well with authority when he was in school causing him to get in trouble frequently. Throughout the last scene of the film Truffaut positions the camera angle to be a wide shot of the ocean and ends with a final image as a mid shot of Antoine looking at the camera with the sea in the background. This displays an unusual ending to film
The title The 400 blows doesn’t seem like a movie about a teenage boy. The 400 blows is an inspirational movie directed by François Truffaut about a schoolboy named Antoine Doinel. Antoine has only one friend who is his best friend, Rene. Antoine has a family even though he doesn’t embrace them because they are often seen fighting. His family consist of himself and his parents. The 400 Blows did a great job conveying the emotions the director was feeling throughout the movie because it seemed emotional
during the late 50s, during the New Wave movement. Arguably, The 400 Blows may be one of the most crucial films of the New Wave movement. Truffaut mentions how this is one of his personal films and that he even identifies with the main character, Antoine Doinel. As a new wave film, it shows one of the main features of the movement, the making of biographies. Therefore, this film was a semi-autobiographical one since it was motivated by Truffaut’s problematic childhood. Also, The French New Wave constantly