Today is Children's Day, let's talk about this "French New Wave" pioneering work "Four Hundred Strikes". The title is derived from a French proverb about a mischievous and mischievous child who needs to be beaten four hundred times to become a good obedient child.
Four Hundred Blows is a black-and-white film directed by François Truffaut, released in France on June 3, 1959. It was Truffaut's semi-autobiographical work and the first in his Antoine series of films.
< h1 class="ql-align-center" > running teenager in the long shot was also me</h1>
The narrative pace of this film is very slow, although the film's shots and soundtrack are not intended to sensationalize, but simply and bluntly present the picture, without embellishment, but let people be defenseless, and the suppressed emotions accumulate little by little. Antoine, a thirteen-year-old boy in Paris, was an illegitimate son, his mother was not concerned about his growth, his stepfather was a jerk who slapped his face at every turn, and his teacher was full of prejudice against him. In the eyes of adults, Antoine is a troubled teenager, he skipped class, lied, ran away from home, stole things, and was finally sent to the juvenile center by his stepfather, but he finally escaped when everyone was not paying attention, he ran all the way to the sea he longed for.
The film ends with a long shot, 1 minute and 20 seconds of running and shooting, there is no music, and the panoramic overhead shot is used. Then the music starts, and after the long shot slowly shakes the view across the sea, he shoots a long shot at Antoine again, and he runs all the way to the beach by the sea and then steps in the water, and the scenery varies from a large panorama to a panoramic view. This long shot does not end, and finally Antoine suddenly turns around and walks straight to the camera, the camera pushes sharply, and the whole film is fixed on a close-up of Antoine's face, and the film ends abruptly at this point, but it is still not finished. A minute and twenty seconds of running is an emotional release of Antoine's long repression of the past. And this young Antoine represents an extremely repressed image that has been hurt by society and family for a long time, and perhaps it is also young you and me.
At this point in the film, I could hardly control myself, and my emotions finally broke out like a landslide. When I cry, I subconsciously hold my shoulders. The movie-watching experience brought to me by "Four Hundred Blows" is particularly intense, not the stimulation of the visual senses, but a glimpse of the collapse and trembling after I grew up. Watching this movie, I can always see myself in it, I am not crying for Antoine, I am for myself.
<h1>The process of growing up is the process of the self dying little by little</h1>
No one is born mature and sensible, and the process of growing up is the process of self-death little by little. Everyone wants to be young forever, but if I had the choice, I would never go back to my childhood, not because I was unhappy, on the contrary, in the eyes of many people, my family is very happy and complete. Big city, well-off family, only daughter, excellent grades, parents work decently, family health. But even so, my childhood is still scarred. Because of his young age, he can only be at the mercy of adults and cannot have his own emotions. Even crying must be endured, beaten to be tied up, by the parents cold and violent abuse but also take the initiative to admit mistakes, their own self-esteem trampled under their feet a hundred times. My father said to me more than once, "You were born to me, and I can do whatever I want to you," and now I shudder when I think about it.
I looked at my heart a little bit disappointed, numb, dead, and I hated that feeling of powerlessness. After so many years, so long that even I myself thought that I had reconciled with the past, I could tell the past and the past without any hesitation. But when I saw this movie, I burst into tears again, and I realized that there were some dark nights in my life that were always hidden in my heart. Stetson said, "Every childhood has a serious ending, which is more or less a sudden face of a serious fact, and it can no longer be slept and forget it." In hindsight, childhood ceased to exist. "Growing up to the end you have to learn to be patient and learn to go against the grain. In the end, you will become the way parents like, you are kind and orderly, you are docile and sensible, you never get into trouble, and parents will say in a self-aggrandizing tone, "Fortunately, when you were educated properly, otherwise you would have become what you would have become!" ”
<h1 class="ql-align-center" > "four hundred hits" can become a good child in the large population? </h1>
There will always be people who will say that you are overly overstepped. "The teenager does not know the taste of sorrow and loves to go upstairs." Fall in love with the upper floor, and worry about giving new words. This comes from the Famous Passage of the Southern Song Dynasty poet Xin Renjie, "Ugly Slave, Shubo Shan Dao Zhongbi", which is often used by elders to teach "temperamental" children in a serious way: Your sorrow is nothing, and you will have to suffer much more in the future than you have now. There is some truth to this statement, but I don't agree with it. It is true that the pain that most people can experience in their youth is limited, but the imprint they leave on the human soul can be extremely deep. Teenagers often have special sensitivities and vulnerabilities compared to adults, because they are facing the awakening of self-consciousness and the transformation of body and mind. Their sorrow is not "forced to say sorrow."
Children who are in the rebellious period of growth do not get good soil for growth. Faced with a rigid and conservative school education system, a fragmented family environment, and a cruel and cold society, can Antoine become a well-behaved child of the large population just by playing "four hundred strokes"? The answer is no.
The biggest problem in family and school education in China is that no one realizes that the problem exists. There are also many families who believe, "If you can't fight, you can't scold, then how to teach." "That's how we grew up, what's wrong with that?" Stick education is just one of the laziest and most rude ways that people choose. In families where children are treated as private property, parents are the source of their children's fears. In The Letter to His Daughter, Wang Shuo wrote: "I don't remember loving my parents. When I was young, I was afraid of them, and when I was older, I began to annoy them, and then I was the tip of the needle to Mai Mang, and I was noisy when I met; Later, I looked down on them and avoided them, on the one hand, I felt that I should be kind to them if I had a responsibility for them, but I couldn't pretend to be able to do it; Later, when I think of them, I feel sad. ”
<h1 class="ql-align-center" > "both parents are evil."</h1>
Douban has a very famous group called "Anti-parents are the scourge of parents". At its peak, the group had more than 100,000 members, and the Logo was a Nezha who cut the bones and returned the flesh to the mother. The word "scourge" may seem sharp, but it is not deliberately vented by the panelists, but just a quote from Jessie, a teenage girl in Nick Hornby's best-selling book Suicide Club. It is mainly here that group members confide or reflect on the emotional or physical harm caused by their parents.
Most of the members of the group have been subjected to injustices in family life, such as direct physical or indirect personal injury. There are also many conflicts between parents, quarrels, domestic violence, or harm caused by inattention and indifference to children, as well as attempts to control children's lives, or more serious sexual harm such as child molestation and sexism. If it can be made into a movie, then the youth of everyone in the group can be made into an epic disaster film, but there is no sound and color.
"Parents are a scourge" is a "great disrespect" phrase that subverts the concept of human morality. However, in addition to angrily denouncing such remarks, parents have also come to reflect on why they have such a conclusion? The problem of children is actually the problem of parents, and the old saying is "the fault of raising a godfather". Parents have a great influence on their children's education, and they cannot simply regard "the scourge of both parents" as a rebellious declaration of a group of rebellious and unfilial "contrarian sons", nor can they be regarded as an irrational expression of collective emotions. Rather than reading it from the orthodox moral level, people think of this as a failure of Chinese family education.
<h1>I hope you can't understand this movie, and I hope you can understand it</h1>
I don't know how many people have seen this movie and hope you can't understand it, which shows that your childhood was very happy. But I hope you can understand it, pay attention to the demands of teenagers' growth, and think about the lack of family education. Hitting or scolding is never the key to the failure of homeschooling. The key point is that parents use what they think is reasonable education to stifle their children's curiosity, suppress their children's self-confidence, and personally destroy any possibility of equal communication. If you have seen the parents of this movie, you can think more, find more balance and warmth in the conflict of parent-child relationship, then the conflict may end up with the overall progress of society, after all, teenagers are forced to grow, in fact, it is the beginning of sadness.
Some people carry the shadow of their youth all their lives, run away for half a life, and may not be able to get out of the humble cowardice of that year. Antoine in the film finally escaped from the juvenile center that imprisoned freedom, and he ran all the way to the seashore that his heart had longed for for a long time, but what would happen to the road ahead? Will the police at the juvenile centre come back? Will he meet more unreliable people? Wandering life or will be upside down? Or will you meet good people and be cared for and pampered? It's hard to say. I like the blank-leaving approach at the end, the growth of a teenager, a journey after another. This journey is the end, too, the beginning of a new one.
All in all, for this meaningful film, I hope more people will see it. I hope you can't understand it, and I hope you can understand it. On this Children's Day, may all children in the world be treated with tenderness by the world.
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