Review of À Nous la Liberté

While watching a masterpiece, by a master craftsman, I try to understand what he wanted to convey. The story is covered in various other reviews, some hailed it masterpiece, some denigrated it. I go with the former, but there is only one important piece of the puzzle not spelt out. Why did the two land up in gaol ? I assume due to tramping / begging (since in the end they did say the earth is round - which I mean they meant to tell that they are where they started from). In between what happened is all a part of human life - in modern age - and I don't mean modern age as they thought in 1931, but it is as much or more, applicable today. You are born free, happy, as children, without any thought of tomorrow, living in the present. That is till you are caught and put in jail (school, if you like it, and the director too meant it, in a small clip). Whether on completion of term (Emile), or even before like Bill Gates (Lois), you escape the grinding, aiming to be free. But are you ? You struggle a bit and then fall back into another jail and are back into your mechanical life again. You might or might not realise it, but that's how it becomes. Only difference is that in this mechanical life, you grow, go up the ladder of social life, get love (may be even lose it). You think that your now starched collar gives you the happiness, probably till you see another one who has just learnt to enjoy (Emile, freshly discharged) and join him in the childish frame. The mechanical life goes on, with its ups and downs - till it is the time. The others now put on the demands on whatever you have gained, and thought your own, and then you give it all (have to) and along with it, the mechanical life, and then you are back to the first stage (old and retired in physical sense), the same carefree life. The assembly line - in the middle shows the two stages, much too well. When you are in school, you complete the job (the wooden toys) by yourself, each one his own. But in the next stage, you have to work with others, each people adding up or complementing the other. Some in the good books of the Boss, or by own efforts move up, but are they happy/ free / out of mechanical life ?