As Evgenli Bauer's silent film The dying Swan said, "A sardonic critic into popular obsession with death and its morbid tendencies include dreamlike sequence". The images of death and Gothic morbid fantasy in this silent film will make us humans in the 21st century feel very familiar. Are we not just the generation that grew up in countless bad adolescents pretending to be melancholy and striving to grieve? Do we really have so much sadness, can we really compose a Gothic swan elegy?
Just like the special hobby for death culture, the special hobby for books is also a common phenomenon in our human cultural society. We have a lot of knowledge about today's bookworms and nerds. Why do people love books so much? Do the love for books and the love for death have similar origins in common (if you dare not say that they have commonality in themselves)?
Briefly talk about the situation of the movie: Firefighter Montage began to endorse and attract, and began to go against his profession. In the end, he escaped to the wild mountains where his confidante (also a secret rebel who resists social pressure, this kind of female image has become necessary for all dystopian literature) told him that there are many people who have escaped persecution, and they love books. So they recite all kinds of books, so that they will not be lost...The books are carried from generation to generation, and each person memorizes his own book (father, uncle, nephew).
Here is another scene that is frightening. It does not arouse people’s favor for books, so that I think whether Truffau deliberately wants to do this, creating a scene against the text: books are so, true, and true. Such a morbid state makes people unconsciously willing to inherit books and recite them, even if they do not understand them at all, even if they are hereditary recitations. Before he died, an uncle still had to teach his nephew to betray the monarchy, and the children stupidly accepted this rule-although they were victims of social persecution, they also formed their own norms. : The book must be endorsed to pass on the book.
This kind of scene has to be reminiscent of another terrorist regime. It is not more kind than the society that wants to eliminate all books. On the contrary, he wants all members to suffer in the name of knowledge, and they think this is their cross. ... Such a civilization is trembling for Rousseau, and he must write "Emile" again from the cold grave of Geneva.
The problem of Fahrenheit451 is universal, especially in today’s professional society under the education of long live knowledge. Fahrenheit451 has won the infinite favor and admiration of all petty bourgeoisie, petty intellectuals, and petty leftists at almost the same time. However, not many people have liked this book. The purpose of the bookstore was disgusting. Homo Clausus, the closed stone figure man, is a true portrayal of the so-called book lover. They don’t know that the essential form of life is the vulgarity and nakedness they hate. However, closed people are not closing themselves, if they can. If you do, then the freedom of the closed person is completely possible. Unfortunately, the narcissism of the closed person has to be produced through the entire culture. The division of labor does not bring people social unity as expected, but instead isolates individuals to instrumental objects based on solidarity in action—books also become instrumental objects completely. Moreover, this object not only did not become a passive source of slaves, as Hegel (perhaps Hegel in Fukuyama’s eyes, whatever) expected, it did not become a slave to discover its own power and use it to resist the master’s passivity, but completely turned the slave into a source of passivity. The lower-level master-slave, because the slave is not interacting with another subject at this moment, but a tool, and the self-consciousness of the slave cannot be separated from the tool.
Books are such a thing. In both utopian and dystopian cultures, people cannot avoid becoming lower-level slaves. These closed slaves have lost their creativity, love, flesh, faith, Christ, and will for a while, and become Historical and abstract nihilists. Perhaps there is only one thing that can prevent them from becoming nihilists, and that is the pathological belief in books. In Fahrenheit 451, these slaves must use endorsements to force themselves to inherit the false ideology of "knowledge is noble". It is no deeper than the ideology that "knowledge is fatal".
Therefore, the negative character in Fahrenheit451 (the fire chief, killed by the protagonist Montage, also reflects that a book lover can kill an individual in such a pathological manner regardless of the specific human nature, just because their ideology is opposed) On the contrary, it makes people feel more meaningful. Before burning a book, he said to the protagonist Montage: "There is nothing in the book, really. Reading these novels, the people in them do not exist, but it makes the readers feel disappointed and unhappy in life, and makes them want to live a life. A life that is simply impossible. Philosophy is worse than novels. He always said: I am correct. Other people are idiots. They are always talking about the same thing. In this century, they are talking about determinism. Becoming free will is just popular, just like the fashion of skirt styles. Memoirs and diaries are just a little impulse for the authors to write. After they wrote a book or two, they were empty and wanted to be different. Start writing a memoir...". Due to the inevitable value tendency of the original work, these words sound a bit naive and extreme, but they do not prevent another higher interpretation: books are a pathological alienation of people.
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