Sunday, May 20, 2012

Movie - 400 Blows (1959)






















If you are looking to watch a movie like Transformers or Oceans Eleven, this is not it. This is a deep and profound movie that follows a young boy that lives in a rough world. Things never go his way and luck is not on his side. I really liked it, the end was about as beautiful as it gets, but it was very sad in many ways, and my heart ached for the kid. For me, the beauty was in the idea that kids are extremely resilient to hardships, more that adults give them credit for, but even so, everyone has their breaking point. Society should be setting kids up for success and parents should be supporting and loving them, but this movie shows just how much that is not the case. The other things that I really love about this movie are the cinematography, the scenes of Paris, and the way that it accurately captured the way that kids see the world – that kind of spontaneity and responsiveness in the adventurous way that possesses qualities of carelessness, irresponsibility, and a very non-adult kind of logic/reasoning (which may be very illogical and unreasonable but seems perfectly logical and reasonable to kids).


IMDb

No comments:

Post a Comment