The cannes film festival has produced many good films, providing every film lover with a large number of fresh and hot movie feasts, of which the adaptation of "Fahrenheit 451 Degrees" has also attracted a lot of attention.
The name "451 Degrees Fahrenheit" must be familiar to science fiction fans, and it should be said that it is the proud work of science fiction master Ray Brabbley. In 1966, the director had already discovered the great value of this novel and was made into a film by the French New Wave master François Truffaut. However, HBO did not play any new tricks this time, which made the fans very disappointed, and it was still a bit thankless to do American dramas to make movies.
However, the spicy evaluation from Douban film friends said that the death pit of "Fahrenheit 451 Degrees" was said in one sentence - in addition to the use of new technologies and special effects, it failed to innovate in combination with the current situation, but was limited to the 1966 version of the storyline and became mediocre.
The theme of "451 Degrees Fahrenheit" is a typical dystopian theme, and it is the crystallization of human culture and the control of rights. The story takes place in the future, when books become contraband. Because the rulers believed that books would cause people to have unnecessary fantasies and thus affect real life, the job of firefighters in that era was not to fight fires, but to burn books.
The most important concept in the film is 455 degrees Fahrenheit, or 233 degrees Celsius, which is the temperature at which paper spontaneously combusts and the temperature at which human civilization burns. However, even if the rulers are foolish, life will always find its own way out, find its way. Therefore, the book people have become the living carriers of the culture that replaces paper, after all, human beings do not die, ideas do not perish, and knowledge can survive.
The clashes in the story mainly focus on the book burning squad leader Betty and the recognized squad's most popular successor, Guy Montago. And the two of them are the epitome of two types of people under the control of thought. Betty saw through the tricks played by the upper echelons early on but did not say it, and continued the wrong thing with a clear conscience and drifted away on this track. Montago was unaware of his atrocities and proud of his accomplishments and respected social status, but his deep contact with Kris revived him in the chaos and made up his mind to join the ranks of saving the artifacts of human culture, thus becoming the target of his former fire teammates.
In a way, Montago is the younger version of Betty, who both admire the power of the flesh, but what makes them make different choices after learning the truth is their personality differences. Betty tends to be conservative and does not have the courage to declare war on the world, And Montago's vague memories of his childhood are like the seeds of curiosity planted in his heart, no matter how barren the external environment is, once it is watered, it can grow into a big tree, so he has the courage to stand against the rules of society.
The more novel point in the film is the setting of why human beings receive anti-intellectual education in a utopian society. Montago confronted the students in the classroom to "educate" them: "Knowledge is a dangerous thing," the narrator said. "Burn everything! We are not born equal, so we can only achieve equality through the flame. "
Although the film setting is a bit of a rigid set, think about when people are lost in technology and entertainment, can they get the so-called "equality"? In fact, it will only create greater inequalities. When the message received by the rulers is derailed from the general public, the social class is fixed, and the development of technology and entertainment is only to provide a placebo for the people. This is not only the thinking that the film brings us, but more importantly, the question has a tangible ironic meaning for us.
Although "451 Degrees Fahrenheit" can only be regarded as poor, the lines and plot are very awkward, but the acting skills of the lead actors Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon are indeed online, especially Shannon's interpretation of his struggles and regret for his apprentice Montago is in place, in line with Betty's restrained emotions. Especially in terms of movie special effects, the HBO that produced "Game of Thrones" and "Westworld" and other popular American dramas is really impeccable, and the details are polished very well.
In recent years, innovations in science and technology have always been exciting, intelligent robots, genetic engineering, life sciences... In a variety of ways to refresh our cognition, the development of the entertainment industry has provided countless ways of hedonism. Brush headlines to play mobile games which is not more happy and joyful than chewing hard to swallow the classic tomes, under the bombardment of fragmented information on the Internet, it is becoming more and more difficult to calm down and read, which has led to the prevalence of anti-intellectualism. Some unorthodox and vulnerable rumors have not been broken one by one in thinking, but have raged, and the stranger argument is "reading is useless", even if we use cut-and-cut data to prove that knowledge is shaping people, there is always a lone case of using Xiaoming Muraguchi to pick up the rags and become a big boss to refute it.
Fortunately, the mainstream voice of our society does not deny cultural crystallization as in "451 Degrees Fahrenheit", on the contrary, the promotion of knowledge and culture has been written into the governance plan, which is our luck, and we also need to constantly think about it and accompany books on the road of life.