The 400 Blows
I found "The 400 blows" to be both interesting and entertaining. Although it does not completely follow the sort of default film structure an audience is used to you remain engrossed throughout. I think the most interesting thing for me was the nature vs. nurture argument it brought up. I may be reading this wrong but I felt that Truffaut was trying to assess what makes a child or a person good or bad. Is someone just born a delinquent or is it the world that changes them? I felt this idea was presented best when the boys went to a Punch and Judy show. In this scene we are shown the innocent faces of the infant children in the crowd watching the show. The puppet show maybe be masked as children's entertainment but the story being told is a very violent one. I think this scene is trying to show that children are born innocent and it is how they are exposed to the world that makes them what they are.
I found "The 400 blows" to be both interesting and entertaining. Although it does not completely follow the sort of default film structure an audience is used to you remain engrossed throughout. I think the most interesting thing for me was the nature vs. nurture argument it brought up. I may be reading this wrong but I felt that Truffaut was trying to assess what makes a child or a person good or bad. Is someone just born a delinquent or is it the world that changes them? I felt this idea was presented best when the boys went to a Punch and Judy show. In this scene we are shown the innocent faces of the infant children in the crowd watching the show. The puppet show maybe be masked as children's entertainment but the story being told is a very violent one. I think this scene is trying to show that children are born innocent and it is how they are exposed to the world that makes them what they are.
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