Comparison-Contrast Essay. Mogilnyy Roman

"Fahrenheit 451" and "Equilibrium"

While choosing a fantastic genre movie oneself is facing a great amount of different movies. The main problem is to choose a proper one that is qualitative enough. Usually such films lack ideas and investments and as a result are a wasting of time. But still, there are great movies and Fahrenheit 451 and Equilibrium are among them.

          Fahrenheit 451 was filmed in 1966 and gives the audience the alternative future situation. The idea of Fahrenheit 451 is that humanity claims that it does not need books and firemen are supposed not to prevent fires but cause them burning books. The very important element of the movie is the exaggeration of the opinion to books. As it seems to me, by that idea the author tried to show the growing tendency of rejecting reading at all. If that tendency develops society may even come very close to the events shown in the movie. Another thing that was foreseen was future careless and absent way of living that was impersonated by main character’s wife. Nowadays such way of behaving is not that rare at all.

          Equilibrium is a nowadays developed copy of Fahrenheit 451. The movie describes future without emotions and culture. Feeling and emotions are against the law and every piece of art, whether it is music, paintings or books, is prohibited. Special professional soldiers are trained to fight “emotional outlaws”. The movie was filmed in 2002 and so it has more special effects and contains more ideas. The main character plays his role perfectly and watching his emotions throughout the whole movie is really interesting.

          So both movies are worth being watched and thought about. They claim the same ideas and are filmed according to the standards of their time. Both movies are useful for different audiences and make people think of their lifestyles.