Fahrenheit 451

One versus the Rest Through a story about a society of people who have lost touch with their humanity and history while allowing themselves to become victims of propaganda and censorship. These people have become mindless and naïve. The science fiction film Fahrenheit 451 was directed by François Truffaut. This film predicted that the future is to become greatly dependent on technology implications for immediate happiness. The fact that the growth of television and technology has driven the people not to read has become a deficit to society. Seeing the struggles that one person goes through and it effecting his job, the internal conflict that has been brought upon him. Based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Ray Bradbury, the film is about a future in which a fireman, whose duty it is to destroy all books, and then begins to question his task. In the future, a totalitarian government employs a force to seek out and destroy all literature. Montag, one of the fireman runs into his neighbor, Clarisse who is a schoolteacher whose job is hanging by a thread due to her unorthodox views. The two then have a discussion about his job, where she asks if he ever reads the books he burns. Starting to become curious Montag begins to hide books in his house. This leads to conflict with his wife (Linda), who is more concerned about being a member of The Family, an interactive television program that refers to its viewers as "cousins". The captain talks with Montag at length about how books change people and make them want to be better than others. A middle-aged woman who was seen with Clarisse a few times is called the book collector, having a hidden library within her house. Once caught with books she refuses to leave her house, opting instead to burn herself and the house so she can die with her books. Returning home that day, Montag tries to tell Linda and her friends about the woman who martyred herself in the name of books and calls them out on knowing nothing