hoe young people are represented in films

In Goddard’s A Bout de Soufflé the young character Michel and Patricia are both very self obsessed with themselves in the way they both are always looking in the mirrors and only listening to themselves and not each other. In my opinion the character Michel is shown as if he has a psychological problem with the way he talks to himself, the way he is not settled and is on the run from the police and also he has a missing identity in the film as he is acting as if he is something he is not.  Patricia is shown to be confused when she is around Michel, she doesn’t know if she loves him or not. Its as if she is leading him on until she makes up her mind on if she wants to be with Michel or not.

In Truffaut's Four Hundred Blows Antoine is a young Truffaut it's conceded to be a biographical story of his childhood. His mother and stepfather concede Antoine as a problem child. Everything he does is wrong in the eyes of his parents and teachers at school.  Antoine tries to do right and be creative but is always gets in to trouble. He ends up running away from home and the detention center. To the city of Paris. This shows that Paris is like a mother to Antoine. Every woman in Antoine's life seems not to care for him. In the end Antoine runs into the ocean in other words he is running back to where he came from. (Where life started)

In Truffaut’s shoot the pianist the young character Charlie is presented as a talented pianist and has big dreams to become one of Paris’s best pianist but will not follow his dreams. And instead works in a small French bistro. He seems to have a bit of a psychological problem with all of his daydreams and thoughts but will not do anything about what he wants.

In Goddard’s Bande a part (the outsiders) the title of the film gives it away that the characters who are young are outsiders who do not fit in with the other people in there community or with Paris. Odile lives with her aunt who does not seem to care about Odile only herself. When Odile meets Franz and Arthur she believes that they are her two friends when really they only want to be with her for her uncles money and, as she is a beautiful looking girl. She has no real friends so hangs around with the two boys who are idiots. She finds out that they are not her true friends in the end as one of them hit her when they discover they cannot steal her uncle’s money.

In my opinion I believe that in all French new wave films that the young characters that have been created by the new wave directors have all been created to be troubled and unwanted by the older generation they have contact with. A good name for this is the outsiders (Bande a part) they do not fit in with the rest of the communities. None of the young characters in the new wave films seem to have a caring family around them and that support them they all seem to be so called friends or in Antoine’s situation has parents but his parents always seem to talk about regretting having him and that they should have aborted him.