Sunday, February 20, 2011
Rush 3: Short Circuits(again)
My original link was from the metal puzzle seen in My Effortless Brilliance connecting to the metal puzzles I used to play with at my grandparents' house. In The 400 Blows, Antoine wakes up late and is convinced to skip school with his friend, which then prompts him to lie the next day about why he was gone. Instead of saying he was ill, he tells the teacher that his mother died, making the lie much bigger than it needed to be. He gets himself into a somewhat elaborate hoax that he must keep going or get into a whole heap of trouble. His parents soon find out and Antoine later runs away from home, trying to figure out his next move. This relates to those metal puzzles in the way that if you make a wrong move in the path to solving the puzzle, you might throw off the whole thing. Antoine works his way into an intricate puzzle and must then find a way to get himself out and separate the metaphorical metal pieces.
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This is a nice move: Like you say, the image of the metal puzzle can in a sense be mapped onto the logic of the "alibi" sequence from 400 Blows (in that Antoine's ostensibly pointless lie allows for subsequent moves--but moves that lead inevitably to a dead end). This conceptual mapping on your part allows a complex dynamic (and an important component of Truffaut's film) to become "portable"--more easily transported back into your own creative outputs.
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