This is an atypical dystopian film. In the future society, reading is a crime. Those who read will be arrested, and the seized books will be burned by "firefighters." Motta, a firefighter, fell in love with books under the inducement of a female resister and became suspicious of the reality of society. Eventually his behavior was discovered by the authorities, and he was forced to burn his house, "forced to Liangshan," and joined the ranks of the rebels.
As one of the leaders of the "New Wave on the Left Bank" in France, Truffaut's film is more of an experimental film, full of a lot of stream of consciousness and philosophical hints. But this also caused the film's narrative to be incoherent, with frequent jumps between plot and plot, and the transitions were blunt. At the same time, as far as the content is concerned, the behavior of the resisters is also relatively insignificant, in order to achieve the goal by all means to seduce Motage. The most puzzling thing is how did the antenna in the movie detect the scholar? How did the firefighter’s slide detect that Mota had read books and failed? There is no explanation in the movie.
Dystopia, as the name suggests, is to shape a future society that is not beautiful and completely contrary to human vision. However, most dystopian films also meet this definition, criticizing the future or insinuating certain systems of reality by creating an extremely repressive system of human nature. But "Fahrenheit 451" is different. The film does not establish a complete political system. All affairs seem to be handled by the "fire brigade", and the film does not mention how this "dystopian system" works. This has also become a reason for a considerable part of the audience's negative reviews. You may even feel whether the director deliberately did it... The fact is that the director is not interested in the dark system. What he wants to discuss is the book, the spiritual and real life, and even the two majors of idealism and materialism. The binary opposition between beliefs.
There are many symbols alluding to religion and mythology in the film. For example, the clothes of the male protagonist who burned books at the beginning resembled the robes of Catholic priests in the Middle Ages. The ubiquitous "apple" in the film actually alludes to the "fruit of wisdom" that Adam and Eve stolen in "Genesis". The main character eats an apple while reading, meaning that he changes from ignorance to thinking (Adam). Yeying and the authorities promoted that "books are the source of evil"; the hero escaped from the city because he was expelled from the "ignorant" Garden of Eden. ...And the word-of-mouth between uncles and nephews is not the early way of spreading human civilization?
Without books-or abandoning it-human beings rely on false and exaggerated TV shows to clear up their emptiness-just like the show "family" in the film. Motage’s wife used TV and "nervous pills" all day long, and her relationship with her husband gradually became cold. Finally, she reported her husband and chose to leave. Entertainment has gradually become the whole of people's lives. For people who have lost their reality, "entertainment to death" will surely end.
In fact, the cities in the film can be regarded as the substantive realism. On the one hand, the people (or the authorities) deny the value of the human spiritual world, on the other hand they use technology (television, pills) and religious movements ("book burning "-Break the four olds) to consolidate the unity of the people's spirit-in other words, "City" believes that the spirit can be controlled by material (Is it a bit familiar:)). The "resistance zone" recognizes the value of books and the spirit behind him. It seems that the director should criticize the former and agree with the latter, but from what the leading actor said to him before a book burn, the director also disagrees with the behavior of putting too much emphasis on spirit and ignoring reality: "There is nothing in the book. , Really. Reading these novels, the people in them do not exist, but the readers are disappointed and unhappy with life, making them want to live an impossible life... Memoirs, diaries, but the author has With a little impulse to write, after they wrote a book or two, due to their emptiness and want to be different, they started to write memoirs..." People in the resistance zone, everyone seems to have a great mission. They don’t care about reality and are paranoid. Reciting the book that they were "responsible" for, they even lost their name. When introducing themselves, they would say: "I am "XXX" written by XX." They will even "force" their offspring to recite—regardless of whether they understand and agree with it or not. This is really a terrible thing. This behavior has actually evolved into another kind of power-the power that forces others to identify with ideas. It is not fundamentally different from the "urban" power that "forces others to give up their thoughts."
Spirit or matter is a compulsory question that everyone must do at a certain stage of life. I have no intention of arguing about the right and wrong of the two, because no matter what choice is made, it is an obligation and right to be responsible for my choice. I just want to say, don't be a speculator who loses your soul, let alone a fanciful dreamer.
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