Farenheit 451
A movie from the past but of the future.
The storyline depicts an era of the future when the society has evolved so much that any form of written words are anti-social. For they bring upon unhappy feelings of all sort (the reason given as per the storyline). The law has forbidden to have any literature written and printed. The newpapers too are all pictures with no words. There is television, elevated trains and even men flying on elevation/flying machines. But there are not books - children in school are taught orally and there are no written test.
The job of firemen is not only to erase fires, but to rage fires too - fight the fires in the buildings and at the same time find printed books and material and put fire to it.
There is a revolt when one of the firemen starts reading books and finds them full of immense knowledge. A friend of his, a school teacher is also fond of reading books and there is a whole circle of people, hiding from the law who have learnt (by-hearted) a book and passing the books on with the generations. The movie leaves us with questions - can this world survive for long? what else is behind this world ?
Farenheit 451 is a good imagination put to reel. The movie of early 60s does depict things of the future, where I reckon, there would not be much on paper, but on plastics and metal (and something else not yet invented) in form of software.
The movie is based on the then best selling sci-fi book by Ray Bradbury.
The storyline depicts an era of the future when the society has evolved so much that any form of written words are anti-social. For they bring upon unhappy feelings of all sort (the reason given as per the storyline). The law has forbidden to have any literature written and printed. The newpapers too are all pictures with no words. There is television, elevated trains and even men flying on elevation/flying machines. But there are not books - children in school are taught orally and there are no written test.
The job of firemen is not only to erase fires, but to rage fires too - fight the fires in the buildings and at the same time find printed books and material and put fire to it.
There is a revolt when one of the firemen starts reading books and finds them full of immense knowledge. A friend of his, a school teacher is also fond of reading books and there is a whole circle of people, hiding from the law who have learnt (by-hearted) a book and passing the books on with the generations. The movie leaves us with questions - can this world survive for long? what else is behind this world ?
Farenheit 451 is a good imagination put to reel. The movie of early 60s does depict things of the future, where I reckon, there would not be much on paper, but on plastics and metal (and something else not yet invented) in form of software.
The movie is based on the then best selling sci-fi book by Ray Bradbury.
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