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https://www.hbo.com/movies/fahrenheit-451

In a future where limiting words somehow makes people happy, some are still enthralled by contraband media.

Moody and good; recommended. It has more literary references than any three years worth of movies.

• Trailer

• Inspired by Fahrenheit 451 – (1953 book), by Ray Bradbury

See also:

• THX 1138 – (1971 movie)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four – (1984 movie)

• Equilibrium – (2002 movie)

• 2022-06-02

2022-06-02 ∞

• 0:45 —

1. 1. It is often better to be in chains than to be free. — Franz Kafka
   2. It is better to be happy than free. — The Bill of Rights
   3. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. — Pride and Prejudice – (1813 book), by Jane Austen
   4. As I Lay Dying – (1930 book), by William Faulkner
   5. On the Origin of Species – (1859 book), by Charles Darwin
   6. The Life Work of Henri René Guy de Maupassant … With a critical preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an Introduction by Robert Arnot. M.A. – (1903 book)
   7. Cien Años de Soledad – (1967 book), by Gabriel García Márquez
   8. Girl with a Pearl Earring – (c.1665 painting), by Johannes Vermeer
   9. Text from Lolita – (1955 book), by Vladimir Nabokov
   10. Maybe that’s a Quran
   11. A painting of soldiers on horseback in a battle. Maybe it’s within a book.
   12. Histories – (c.430 book), by Herodotus
   13. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame – (1482 book), by Victor Hugo
   14. Nine Symphonies of Beethoven in Score – (1935 book), by Albert E. Wier (Miniature Score Series)
   15. A painting of the profile of a man with a hat.
   16. Journal of Genetics – DNA could store all the world’s data in one room – Volume III
   17. Sitting Bull – (c.1883 photograph), by D F Barry
   18. V-J Day in Times Square – (1945 photograph), by Alfred Eisenstaedt
   19. Nazi book burnings, specifically 1933-05-10 although the video in this movie is flipped.
   20. A painting of a man using a sickle with wheat.
   21. A painting of a 3/4 profile of a woman against a yellow background.
   22. The text for “memory” is too obscured to get a sentence to search with.
   23. A painting of a 3/4 profile of a chubby woman with a scarf and hat against a mottled background.
   24. Critique of Pure Reason – (1781 book), by Immanuel Kant
   25. Heart of Darkness – (1902 book), by Joseph Conrad
   26. Moby-Dick – (1851 book), by Herman Melville
   27. Part of the first page of Moby-Dick.
   28. A black-and-white ink of a man with a rifle at his side holding a dying woman.
   29. Some backwards text I’m not going to figure out, but it does have “ancient” at the top-right.
   30. I believe this is more Nazi book burnings by a Nazi youth brigade.
   31. Text from One Thousand and One Nights – (c. 1706–1721 stories)
   32. Their Eyes Were Watching God – (1937 book), by Zora Neale Hurston
   33. Some backwards text.
   34. Faust – (1808 text), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
   35. The Book with Seven Seals – (1938 oratorio), by Franz Schmidt
       — Specifically part one
   36. Something in Chinese
   37. Wise Blood – (1952 book), by Flannery O’Connor
   38. Robinson Crusoe – (1719 book), by Daniel Defoe
   39. Some foreign text, I think in Arabic
   40. A painting of a man with a hat on a blue background.
   41. Apollo 11 moon landing – (1969-07-20 photograph as11-40-5875), by NASA
   42. Abraham Lincoln – (1865-02-05 photograph), by Alexander Gardner
       — http://www.physical-lincoln.com/exposure/o116
   43. The Prince – (1910 book), by Niccolò Machiavelli
   44. Phaedrus – (c.370 BCE), by Plato
   45. Aeneid – (19 BC book), by Virgil
   46. Text from Don Quixote – (1615 book), by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
   47. Study of a Young Woman – (c.1665-67), by Johannes Vermeer
   48. Text from On the Origin of Species – (1859 book), by Charles Darwin
   49. A painting of a black man’s portrait on a blue background.
   50. A black-and-white photograph.
   51. Text from A Tale of Two Cities – (1859 book), by Charles Dickens
   52. A strange painting/sketch of a woman with a long neck on a smudged background.
   53. A black-and-white photograph of a black woman in a collar and tie.
   54. Oedipus at Colonus – (401 BC play), by Sophocles
   55. I think that text reads “the Cage Sings”
   56. A Lady Writing a Letter – (c. 1665 painting), by Johannes Vermeer
   57. It was not Death, for I stood up, (355) – (poetry) by Emily Dickinson
   58. Vitruvian Man – (c.1490 drawing), by Leonardo da Vinci
   59. A photograph of two black children with toques.
   60. A painting of two people with hoods on.

• 2:30 — Holy fuck that took a lot of time to research.
• 5:00 — The proper quote is “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” — Twilight of the Idols – (1889 book), by Friedrich Nietzsche

• 5:45 —

  • Bible
  • The Light-House – (1849 unfinished book), by Edgar Allan Poe
  • Moby-Dick – (1851 book), by Herman Melville
• 9:30 — That’s a lot of titles I’m not going to note.
• 12:15 — There’s no way in hell weapons lockers like that would be left unguarded.
• 12:30 — Kerosene
• 14:00 — He’s not very good at keeping watch.
• 14:15 — She should be playing him.
• 16:45 — Benjamin Franklin
• 23:15 — Those are likely quotes.
• 27:15 — The Grapes of Wrath – (1939 book), by John Steinbeck
• 28:45 — Tower of Babel
• 29:00 — Franz Kafka

• 30:30 —

  • Baruch Spinoza
  • Predestination

• 31:00 —

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – (1876 book), by Mark Twain
  • Native Son – (1940 book), by Richard Wright
  • Henry Miller
  • Ernest Hemingway
• 33:00 — Many different titles.
• 36:00 — Notes from Underground – (1864 book), by Fyodor Dostoevsky

• 1:11:00 — Various references.

  • And there’s our communist Chinese media manipulation.
• 1:16:45 — I guess he’s modelled after Kim Peek.

• 1:25:45 — Various references.

  • Is that communist manifesto a little nod?