7. • Society as a prison
• Social breakdown
(breakdown of family)
• Censorship
• Social / artistic
conventions as a prison
(imitation as creation)
• Algeria (war in Algeria)
• Search for liberation /
liberty (in life and art)
8. Revolutionary Elements
• Absence of narrative /
plot
• Self-referential nature
of film
• Mobility of the camera
• Depiction of childhood
• Eschewing of classical
narration / editing
• Use of non-traditional
framing / shots