this movie bewilder me . it may be that i be just a stupid american and but i really just do not get 400 blow . everything i have read about this movie have be a total rave and but i just couldn not stay interested . i be sure that it be a revolutionary in film making a all the critic say and but when it boil right down to it and it just really really boring . maybe it the language barrier and may i be just not sensitive or artsy enough and but whatever the case be and i hat this movie . the story itself isn not bad while it about a young french boy who be treat unfairly by his parent and his teacher and and eventually he end up in a juvenile facility . that in itself ought to be interesting and and it be and at first . there be nothing wrong with the dialogue and but then again it hard to say because half of the conversation weren not subtitle and for no apparent reason and so i do not always know what be go on . but for the dialogue we could understand and it make enough sense . the actor be believable enough and but it hard to say what a real person would do in these situation . so you feel for the main character and but only in the sense that when he get into trouble you think and well that suck . the plot isn not even your typical plot . each time he get in trouble and he get into more trouble than the last time and but the reason never vary too much . and through the entire film you realize that there nothing the main character can really do about it . so it more like just wait to see how it end . the end and by the way and be completely over my head . it way too artsy for me and and i just do not get it . lead up to the end be easy enough to follow . the structure be certainly there and and it make sense a well and but everything be really draw out . for the amount of dialogue and significant moment and the movie could have be an hour shorter . it just do not end . part of it be the unnecessarily long shot and none of which be especially memorable while for example and the end be a clip of the main character run down a country road that last a good thirty second . now and i be sure that have some deep meaning in it somewhere and but for the average viewer and i would rather have get up to get some more food during that time . or at least do something a little more useful than sit and watch this boy run and like do my laundry and or take a nap . final verdict the feeling throughout the whole movie be that this probably would be very moving and just amazing and that it would teach me some great life lesson and if i could only get what the director be try to say by his unique decision . a it be and i just felt cheat out of a good two hour of my life .