The apocalyptic movie I chose to watch was Farenheit 451, and this movie was awful. The plot of the movie is basically firefighters burn books instead of put out fires in an attempt to curb individualism. The main character in this movie is Guy Montag, who is a firefighter that in the end becomes an advocate for books. His wife is Linda montag, and she is a very proper and nice lady who is a housewive. Those are the only two characters who are specifically named and focued on in the movie, however there are many smaller characters. The movie was made in 1966, so the setting is portrayed to be futuristic which is far from true watching it today.
Guy meets a woman on a train who follows him after he gets off, and after finding out that he is a firefighter she asks him many questions, such as why do they burn books, did they ever used to extinguish fires instead of putting out books, and if he has ever read any of the books they burn. This triggers his imagination, and at the sites where they burn books that have been found, he tends to take a couple home with him. This is very risky due to the fact that books are illegal, and his wife is totally against this. As he brings more and more books home and reads more he realizes what he is doing at the fire department is wrong, and after being told abotu a society that embraces books, he decides to quit his job. The day he quits the chief talks him into one more mission, and ironically enough he ends up at his own house. He burns his books, but also burns the chief, killing him. Guy then escapes and makes it to the society in the woods where all the book advocates, including the lady on the train live. Overall this movie was not very well put together, didnt make sense at times, and was also very predictable.
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