What movie did YOU just FINISH watching?
Feb 10, 2021 7:14:21 GMT
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Post by Prime etc. on Feb 10, 2021 7:14:21 GMT
FAHRENHEIT 451 1966 - what a brilliant movie. I remember being impressed by the way it predicted things like interactive reality tv--but it goes way beyond that. The story could easily have been pretentious but it avoids this, maybe by somehow not being partisan. That alone is impressive.
The reliance on drugs to feel better.
How modern is that?
The firemen kind of appear fascistic yet the "family's cousin" on the tv is a woman--they talk about the negatives of having children-so there's a feminist thread in it---and at one point she talks about equality and tolerance! In order to have equality you cannot have differences. Just amazingly prophetic. In fact, you get a close up of Defoe's Journal of the Plague Years being burned, and it shows someone's face with the lower half masked. Amazing how fitting this movie is to now.
The musical score is so effectively profound--I do find the finale tear-inducing. It could be regarded as hokey but I think the music prevents that from happening--it shepherds you into the correct emotional state, as well as with some cleverly used humor.
The story isn't simply a warning--it's kind a meditative sketch into human behavior--conformity, how easily humans can fall to fear, ignorance, and loss of history, repression of natural behavior (I noticed the women scratching at their faces and necks on the train), the contrast between creation and destruction--the fire is almost like a religious belief. The fact that there's no explanation of how this society started kind of helps to focus one on the basics. No freedom, no expression of thought, and at the same time, they don't just make the firemen look completely evil or insane--they give some explanation for why they do it--that books make people unhappy or different. And yet the ending is suggesting the uniqueness of the books help to bring the people there into a kind of utopian society as outcasts.
The reliance on drugs to feel better.
How modern is that?
The firemen kind of appear fascistic yet the "family's cousin" on the tv is a woman--they talk about the negatives of having children-so there's a feminist thread in it---and at one point she talks about equality and tolerance! In order to have equality you cannot have differences. Just amazingly prophetic. In fact, you get a close up of Defoe's Journal of the Plague Years being burned, and it shows someone's face with the lower half masked. Amazing how fitting this movie is to now.
The musical score is so effectively profound--I do find the finale tear-inducing. It could be regarded as hokey but I think the music prevents that from happening--it shepherds you into the correct emotional state, as well as with some cleverly used humor.
The story isn't simply a warning--it's kind a meditative sketch into human behavior--conformity, how easily humans can fall to fear, ignorance, and loss of history, repression of natural behavior (I noticed the women scratching at their faces and necks on the train), the contrast between creation and destruction--the fire is almost like a religious belief. The fact that there's no explanation of how this society started kind of helps to focus one on the basics. No freedom, no expression of thought, and at the same time, they don't just make the firemen look completely evil or insane--they give some explanation for why they do it--that books make people unhappy or different. And yet the ending is suggesting the uniqueness of the books help to bring the people there into a kind of utopian society as outcasts.