One day, the duty of firefighters is no longer to put out fires, but to set fires.
This film is too abstract. Maybe the story itself is not a story, and the characters themselves are not limited to the characters. They all have a certain symbolic meaning. It can be regarded as a relatively different film~
As a firefighter trained (brainwashed) from a young age, Montag finally turned against the captain and was burned to death. Did he sacrifice the ego to complete the ego? Will the caged birds be released into chaos once again? Although the captain is a villain, he is obviously not a simple character. He cultivated Montag, but what is the purpose of enticing Montag to read? Did Montag disrupt some of his plans before he was burned to death?
After watching it, I feel that the plot is not smooth or rational.
The duty of firefighters is to set fire to books when they find them, and Montag’s puzzle is: Why do you want to burn books? He couldn't get the answer, but he could only find the answer in the book, which was ironic.
Looking at it from another angle, firefighters’ arson is actually a kind of extinguishment, which extinguishes the “single fire” that can start a prairie fire in thought.
When books are burned out, people's yearning for freedom never stops. When the rebels memorize a book by themselves, does the ideological dictator consider burning the book or killing? Is "burning books and pitting Confucianism" in the past tense or the future tense?
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