Kids at the Puppet Theater: Just Look at Their Faces
Oh my God, these beautiful, vivid, threatening, distorted and lovely faces kids can show at a puppet theater… Do you think these kinds of things could still happen, or we are much too trained in digital videos and individual consumption? Well I can only hope that the OX laptop will bring so much life into developing countries. Yesterday I played around with the music program: cute. :)
It’s a scene from Francois Truffaut’s film entitled The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) made about 50 years ago. The film is about a trouble-maker kid as well as about the injustices of the treatment of juvenile offenders in France at the time (wikipedia). As the film is considered to be semi-autobiographical, Truffaut must have captured a good part of his childhood. Anyway, my favorite books are usually inspired by and focusing on authors’ childhood experiences - characterized by very powerful and clean emotions and dialogs. But injustices still exist, sadly enough. This is a shocking article in NYT about how adolescents experimenting with their limits and bodies are totally exposed on the internet. It is very contraversial, stirring and pointing out an exisiting problem that should really be thought over and changed. Nobody should be skinned and hunted down for childhood ’sins.’ Maybe that’s why I love the Aviator’s ending too.
Through ZeFrank.