400 Blows - Francois Truffaut, in relation to 'Means of Escape'.

This film stars a young Jean- Pierre Leaud, who starred in many of Truffaut's later films through the course of his life, Antoine Doinel his character is a young boy who truants from school to go to the cinema and various other places, he eventually gets picked up and arrested and is taken to a young offenders home, at the end of the film he breaks into a run, this shot remains unbroken and unedited for a long while, the audience are left wondering how the boy feels while he is doing this, is it freedom, escape and a sense of relief, or has he become overwhelmed with life, saddened and helpless. The ambiguity of this shot is overshadowed by how beautiful it is.

 This is something i wanted to implement in my own work, the sequence in my film with my character running is a direct reference to the 400 blows, it also provides a plot development that keeps the audience wondering if the main character of my film is running in past present or future.