Fahrenheit 451

An extraordinarily lazy adaptation

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. You always dread the unfamiliar. Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally 'bright,' did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. And wasn't it this bright boy you selected and tortured after hours? Of course it was_. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then...

Timely for sure, and check that cast, but 2018's Fahrenheit 451 is a TV movie and it plays like one.

Final rating: - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product.

So...what would happen if Fahrenheit 451 was made into a movie by the Cancel Culture crowd? You don't have to wonder, it's right here.

It's a movie about book burning... and CRT... so, you know, they want to say that when the right burns books it's bad, and whiteness, and evil... but some books still need to be burned, because if you don't burn them than people might get wrong think, and that is bad too.

And because of that, it never really finds its footing.

But it does succeed in taking a movie about censorship, inserting 1619 Project Revisionist History pro-censorship politics, and then making it completely and totally unwatchable.

And that might have been the intent. But I get the feeling that Jordan just threw up his arms...