Michael B. Jordan is the best part of the worst Sc-Fi movie in HBO

“There must be something in the books, something we cannot imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. Don’t remain for nothing.”

These words from Ray Bradbury, the Prophet “Fahrenheit 451” confirms our innate association with literature and how instinctive is the desire to protect like artistic legacies. In the 1953 book, Bradbury America is a determined book, as all books are banned and burned by firefighters, who are present to eliminate any ideas that are considered an authoritarian state. One of these extinguishing, Guy Montag, gradually realizes that burning the book cannot be present in a vacuum – it is an act that imposes an activity and violates individual and collective freedom. With tiredness and disappointment, the hope of his contribution to such a rich practice, the man left his job and decided to do everything in his power to preserve the precious books and literary worlds that contain it. But the path that is seized is dangerous and unpredictable, as it seems that the people around it are satisfied with the state of the world, and they are satisfied with the act of what was said to them.

“Fahrenheit 451” also draws a relationship between increasing contempt for books and the extensions of shorter interest, as authoritarian countries use technology to control the media and form public opinion. Bradbury also predicts the common technological tools today (everything from massive flat TVs to wireless ear headphones), although it is framed as deviations created to discourage the masses from engaging in critical thinking. Given the happiness of some parts of the world, especially when it comes to imagination (example Fixed and arbitrary ban of Stephen King’s books in school libraries“Fahrenheit 451” appears to be a prophetic warning of speculative imagination. He expects our obsession with our screens and a social bending towards everything that demands the shortest span.

when Ramin Bahrani (who led the 2013 disregard drama, “at any cost”) For HBO, “Fahrenheit 451” has decided for HBO. He knew that telling such a strong story would be difficult. Bahrani pointed out that we are already living in the world that Bradbury warns us, as the virtual facts (including social media) often have the precedence over unilateral endeavors such as reading books. However, reading books were also read at the same time, as they were redefined as the symbol of the case or the mark of the outbreak of consumption on some of the Internet angles. In a column New York TimesBahrani wrote that “possessing books becomes a rebellion”, because it is impossible not to deal with the digital media that you want to outperform critical thinking (as we are digitally motivated at all times).

Unfortunately, this precise perspective does not invalidate the HBO adaptation, as “Fahrenheit 451” in Barani. Although there is one bright point: Michael B. Jordan, which is starring alongside Michael Shannon.

In Bhrani’s adaptation, Jay (Michael B. Jordan) is more screaming and cheerful than his literary counterpart. For beginners, his function is celebrated as a more firefighter than you think, and the books of books imposed by the state are praised as heroes, and their faces are attached to huge advertising boards. Most of these firefighters have never seen a book, so they deal with these cultural artifacts that appear to be old with a feeling of caution and dread. This curiosity was buried in depth, they love their teeth and put books.

But Bahrani does not remain in these precise moments-instead, it enhances Jordan’s tendency to shine in heavy work sequences, and turns part of the story into a dynamic moments of a bite. This inevitably delays the transformation of the man who opens the eye, as it is difficult for him to separate from government propaganda. However, a meeting with Clarisse (Sophia Potila) hurries this somewhat, because it suddenly possesses a hidden world of forbidden knowledge and artistic wonders.

The main problem with this version of the story is that it was listed several times, often in better ways without limits. François Truefault 1966 adaptation of the book is sharp, smart, brilliantly designed, and it may be one of the best interpretations of Bradbury’s novel. Even films, which were indirectly affected by “Fahrenheit 451”, embraced a distinctive identity to which the Bahrani version lacks. An example that comes to mind is “Balance”, where Christian Bill Preston is subject to a related transformation Just like a man, while devoting himself to art and beauty and eliminating a comprehensive system. With the presence of many stories that already raises Bradbury’s spirit with amazing complexity, “Fahrenheit 451” of HBO feels almost events, because its central ideas are more shallow than the beginning.

Jordan pumps the film with a refreshing dynamic even when the scenario stumbles, as Machismo feels his character that he is authentic, although a Bradberry man has never adopted such a firm external identity. There is also an increasing hidden events, which are fortunately dispersed by Michael Shannon John Betty, who is intense and teacher in a story that begins at a real speed. However, “Fahrenheit 451” depends very significantly on spot pictures, preoccupied with cool appearance and looks deep (with no to show it). If there is anything, this HBO adaptation disturbs each side that makes Bradbury very immortal.