Response to The 400 Blows

While watching the movie The 400 Blows I couldn't stop thinking about how much repetition went on throughout the film, and then I thought to myself is there any significance to this repetition? In one scene during this movie the Director chose to have the camera angle high in the air casting down onto the scene. In this scene you see the care free, oblivious gym teacher running down the streets of paris with his students following him. You then start to see the students one by one leaving the gym teacher until there is only a couple of students following him. With the director using this camera angle, the viewer gets the sense of funny, joking teenage boys enjoying a prank. Then at the end of the movie, the director chooses to film the main character Antoine running away from gym class again although this time it is much more serious because he is running for his life. The director proceeded to capture this scene with an eye level shot which allows the viewer to capture the seriousness in this scene. I think it is very interesting on how the director repeated a scene in the movie and just by the changing the camera angles he was able to capture two completely different emotions, reactions and scenes for the viewers.