Review of Small Change (1976) by Ray S — 07 Apr 2012

This film reminded because me of his first film, "The 400 Blows" because of childhood. Truffaut comes back to the theme of re-adolescence but in a much colorful mood. It's funny, the film is in color as well. The film came out in 1976, where children and pre-teens are quite popular in film. There's a lot that happens in "Small Change" but it arranged in "episodes". I think when we were children growing up, trying to figure out ourselves, our identities, a bunch of funny and tragic things happened. The things we experienced personally, is all laid out in certain scenes of the film.

I think we all remember out first crush whether with another person our age or with an adult who showed affections to us when no one else would give it, or when just need it. We've experienced mistreatment with by our parents or other children. We saw things that we weren't suppose to see and when we saw it, it probably didn't make sense to us. Yet sometimes, we kept on looking at it. All these types of things happen in this film and we all can relate to it. I can tell that Traffaut loves working with children. He does. You can feel the nature of schoolchildren being immature, funny, disruptive, bullied; all those things. I enjoyed the film a lot. It was pretty funny and sweet. There's this kid who wants to be loved but his eyes are on the wrong person and it's funny how the process of was being held. Though, the end, he falls on his feet. To the right track. The shots were great. There are some handheld and some that aren't. I love Truffaut's tracking shots, they have such a consistency that only filmmakers like Tarantino, Spielberg, Van Sant, and P.T. Anderson pay homage to. There are some shots that last more than thirty second and the doesn't is always doing something. It's not boring. The character has become a character of it's own, I think it wants to connect to the characters.

I was reminded again how children can be in their vulnerable state of their lives. And why.