The 400 Blows

Set in France in the 1950's, The 400 Blows follows the life of the young boy Antoine Doinel who is in poverty and lives in a small flat with his mother and father. The film shows how much touble Antoine gets into from just being himelf and how much he struggles to be a good person in his mother and fathers eyes who always see him as imature and doesn't know how to act normal. They complain about him getting in the way and how they have tried everything with him and they just want to give up and send him to an ophanage so they don't have to deal with him anymore Than when he steals a type wrter the parents have just had enough and send him off to insituation where he is mixed amoung boys who are also in simillar situation to him.

I thought the plot of the film was alright but as in resloving the problems of the story and making suspense and want to know more I would say it wasn't there. I think the film couldv'e been alot better if maybe the director stood back and thought about to make it to the audeince that they want to know what happens next. I thought the concept of the film and the basic idea was really good and couldv'e amounted to something. A young boy living in paris with a home life and doesn't fit in anyway it a really good idea but I think he almost had to many problems and there wasn't enough time to reslove them all.

Having said that the plot of the film was really bad I really thought the editing and the cinematography of the film was amazing. Considering it was made in 1959 the camera work was amazing and the editing was really good. A scene that stood out to me about power was when the boys were in the class room and the camera was pointing from behind the room as if we were someone in the class. And what I was focused on was how everytime he turned his back we saw the boys act naughty and every time it was poor Antoine that got the blame every time for something he didn't do, and it made me feel as though he never had a voice and that he was always being told right and wrong and that he had no power or control over his life and that is was always someone telling him how to act and that he was getting told off for doing things he wasn't actually doing.

Overall I don't think this film was best, but I do think that the cinematography, editing, mise-en-scene and the film concept was very good.