Last night I watched François Truffaut's "The 400 Blows". I hadn't seen it before, and there are certainly tons of essays and reviews on the film available online already, but there was one thing I thought of right away: Since the film was released in 1959, and the plot revolves around a 12-year-old boy who steals, lies, drinks and smokes, I thought about how adolescence was being portrayed in film and television here in the US at the time. The first thing to pop in my head was Leave it to Beaver, which was in its second season that year. What a world of difference. And Truffaut was only 27 when the film debuted. Best.
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