The 400 Blows Excerpt 5: Jogging in the city streets with the gym teacher (1’31”)

Excerpt 5
 

 Questions

1. What happens in this sequence? Is it serious or comical--or both? What theme is developed here, in relationship to the outside world (the Paris streets)?
2. Discuss (and explain) the camera angles used by Truffaut here.
3.

Have you seen Zéro For Conduct by Jean Vigo (1933)? If so, did you notice the “quotation” of Vigo’s film in this sequence?