"Fahrenheit 451 Degrees"--Western-style "Burning Books Does Not Entrap Confucianism"

Camron 2022-01-07 15:52:48

Truffau’s first color film, the actor Oscar participated in the director’s "Jules and Jim", and was nominated as an Oscar actor with Vivien Leigh’s last film, "The Ship of Fools," and the heroine Julie was named by Al Pacino. As the "most poetic actress", he plays two roles in the film. The film is adapted from the science fiction work of the same name by American science fiction master Ray Bradbury.

The background of the film takes place in the future, an era of banning books and burning books (remember that what Qin Shihuang did was cut grass and roots, and the scholars directly pulled them out and buried them alive). It's a pity that I don't know French, and I was surprised to find a copy of "Lolita"). The protagonist Motag was originally a loyal firefighter who had a good job and was facing improvement. One day, he met a woman who looked exactly like his wife. Through a conversation with her, Motag discovered the boring life and the oppression of work. He began to hide and read books secretly, until the next target of the firefighters' search was his home...

Mogta watched the boss in the glass silently beating and cursing the two new students. All three of them seemed to be melted and unreality, indicating Mogta's final suspicion of his work and interpersonal relationship.

The opening scene of the firefighters burning a book is the best scene of social depression created in the whole film. The firefighters turned over all the books hidden in the corners in an orderly manner without saying a word. On the iron shelf outside, a child picked up a fallen book and was reading it. A firefighter stared at him. The child's father quickly took the book and threw it on the iron shelf. At this time, the onlookers either watched the excitement or expressed their innocence, and all were in awe of the behavior of the firefighters. The howling flames burned down the ladder of people's progress and the foundation for the survival of this society.

The ultimate social form of the dystopian world is extremely bad, and the future world shown in the film is only from the perspective of book burning, which can be said to be a fairly mild accusation. A large number of images were aimed at the book being burned, curled up under the burning point of 451 degrees Fahrenheit, and in just a few minutes, it turned from the finest paper with beautiful pictures and deep philosophies to worthless curly black ash, although you know A movie by Truffaut will not let these spiritual wealth completely disappear, but in the process of watching the movie, he still feels distress and anger from the heart, and then understands the depth of the regime’s fear of free thought and the people’s loss of human rights. The complaint. In the new democratic society, this totalitarianism only exists quietly in a certain form. In a corner we don’t know, how many “banned books” are not allowed to be brought into the mainland. It is not a matter of protecting the people or fearing the trend of thought, the right of choice is not. In the hands of the lower class.

The wife who was exchanged lost her memory, pain, dreams and love, leaving only the empty shell and familiar sex in Mogta’s memory

The fire brigades that don’t fight fires but only set fires, the firefighters who grab people and search their bodies casually, people who don’t remember the past and don’t understand history, the telescreens of households, the relatives who disappeared inexplicably, etc. can all be compared and more detailed in 1984. explanation of. However, the material life of the society set by the film is pretty good. Living in a big house and wearing good clothes is completely unable to meet the standard of lack of materials, everyone is overwhelmed and indifferent, and there is no such thing as mental poverty. The firefighters rummaged through boxes and felt clothes. The book was made into a necessary cheat sheet for exams and turned out of the baby's pocket. At first glance, it was shocking. He thought that the baby in the swaddle would also be taken away. This openly challenged eating and drinking. The unwary public grievances turned out to be only a sign that the male protagonist quietly let go of the bibliophile and began to resist work, and to use personal resistance to win the portrayal of society. In my opinion, this pattern is too small. In a world where there is no reading, Truffau only silences everyone and reduces communication as much as possible. However, it does not make the common people’s lack of collision of ideas or more intense performance under related rights and interests more profound, such as more Crudeness or increased crime, etc.

What is more surprising is the red in the film, which represents the red of the fire brigade. The red of the walls and fire trucks is both a flame that swallows everything but also a spewing blood. This color abounds in the environment where people live: peeping The book covers next to firefighters, the color of walls in ordinary people’s homes, and the colors of school walls all prove the existence of such surveillance to increase the sense of fear.

Although this film is full of political and social metaphors, it is difficult to get rid of the strong literary style. Therefore, a woman who died from self-immolation in a book she has collected for a lifetime can smile like a dance like a song, and a person who voluntarily becomes a book recorder due to resistance can also be regarded as more profound after his relatives leave. His experience of understanding the story in the book, what he intuitively felt was not intense enough, even when Motag faced the government’s lies, he didn’t respond, and soon he was willing to become a book. This kind of resistance was too negative and too pessimistic. .

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  • Priscilla 2022-04-24 07:01:16

    I've always believed that movies can make up for books, and that a second-rate book can make a first-rate movie. But this movie was a little disappointing. The book itself is not deep enough, and the political metaphor is greater than the artistic charm. When making a movie, the artistic charm is even more lacking. The scene is not like the future sci-fi time. It is less than the United States in the 1940s. The visual language is not mastered enough.

  • Lionel 2022-01-07 15:52:48

    From the burning of witches and other dissidents in Christianity to the burning of Copernicus in the Inquisition, to 1984, including the Fahrenheit 451, all are the authorities’ fear of opinion, knowledge, freedom, and reason. Of course, things have two sides, but The monopoly of resources is a dangerous undercurrent, a warning that pushes the monopolist itself into the abyss. From the perspective of the movie itself, like Orwell’s novel, it follows the narrative of the fortress’s internal conquering, and the system first counters.

Fahrenheit 451 quotes

  • Clarisse: Why?

    Guy Montag: What?

    Clarisse: How did it come about? How did it begin? How could someone like you be doing this work? I know everyone says that but you - you're not like them. When I say something to you, you look at me. Why did you choose this job? With you it doesn't make any sense.

  • Guy Montag: Look at that fellow over there.

    Clarisse: What's he doing?

    Guy Montag: That's the information box. He can't make up his mind.

    Clarisse: What does he want to find out?

    Guy Montag: He doesn't want to find out anything. He knows someone who has books, so he got hold of the person's picture and number and is going to drop it into that box.

    Clarisse: But he's an informer!

    Guy Montag: No, he's an informant.