Common wisdom will likely tell a filmmaker that they should take their time ending a story. A great way to make sure an ending is satisfying is to ensure it concludes everything that came before, and help viewers feel like they didn't waste time watching. Ending a movie's story too abruptly can run the risk of feeling random and being funny, which might be okay if you're making a comedy, but that's not exactly desirable if that humor wasn't intentional.
Reading the ending as a comment on Antoine feeling lost could be reaching, and some may instead feel like The 400 Blows is just trying to be artistic and unconventional by having essentially no resolution. Either way, it is memorable, whether you like it or not, and is a big reason for The 400 Blows being one of the best-known of the French New Wave.
This sense of bucking convention can also be seen in the ending, where the birds cease attacking people, allowing the surviving characters to cautiously exit the house they were holed up in. It creates a sense of unease, because it's uncertain if or when they'll start attacking again, and whether the characters will be able to stay alive if/when they do. The ending certainly contributes to the film's reputation as among Alfred Hitchcock's best movies.
It features early performances from Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel, and mostly revolves around a group of young men living within the mob to some extent, all dreaming of bigger things. The way it generally stays away from having too concrete a story is also demonstrated by its jarring ending, which sees numerous major characters get shot at while in a car, causing an accident where certain fates are left unknown because the film simply ends.
Various people are killed, and then the protagonist is shot and killed while in werewolf form. His love interest is devastated, but then the end credits suddenly hit. There's little indication of whether the people killed in the climactic attack will turn into werewolves themselves, with that being something left hanging without really having attention drawn to it in a cliffhanger sort of way.
Despite fighting for survival throughout the entire movie, the protagonist's efforts aren't enough, and she is indeed suddenly dragged to hell in the film's final scene. Seeing someone go through so much and ultimately not exceed can be brutal, but then again, horror movies wouldn't be as suspenseful if none ever ended like this.
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