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400 Blows Has the Longest Tracking Shot

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scene from the film classic The 400 Blows (1959) by Francois Truffaut
scene from the film classic The 400 Blows (1959) by Francois Truffaut
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he'd run like the wildest river

from a Juvie camp to be free

run relentless, hot like a fever

and reached the cool mothering sea

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a sudden realization lights his face:

nowhere to run, the lapping irony,

he'll disappear without a trace;

turns, FIN, to the camera, and looks at me.

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