Fahrenheit 45 Critical Analysis

In 2016, short film directors, Daniel Martinez and Rafa Cano Mendez published an animated, silent eight-minute, short film that took YouTube™ by storm. The synopsis of this film appeared to be an underlining message of the need for ingenuity, innovation, and inspiration into rearing children and guiding them towards successful futures. Just ten years prior, in February of 2006, Sir Ken Robinson conducted a TedTalk video illuminating similar hidden undertones in lecture form. Sir Ken Robinson’s lecture expounded on the importance of unfettered creativity versus the cumbered education process and deprivation of innovation. It seems to be the underlining trend that society is craving, a better way to educate the newer generation in hopes that

This is an arguably exact depiction of human nature and interaction in today’s society because even with our multiple forms of entertainment and literacy forewarning the inevitable, we as a generation still traveled down this path. In “Fahrenheit 451” by author Ray Bradbury, similar foreshadowing occurred as it exemplified a society lacking proper education, creativity, innovation or independent thinking, resulting in the promotion of ignorance and an uprising. If we are not careful, we could lead down similar paths through imitation of prior literary works. In the short film Alike, the pedestrians display mindless and emotionless lackadaisical behavior towards their own foreshadowing demise. They conduct themselves in everyday life through desensitization with reality which seems to be contagious towards the father initially. In the film, it seems to be a similar underlining message like that of the Fahrenheit 451 illustration, where the father (then antagonist turned protagonist) lived life only in a way that was deemed socially acceptable. Unfortunately, the father’s day to day life was met with extreme dissatisfaction, lack of creativity, innovation, and independent thinking in which he unintentionally forced upon his child. The child in the short film only

That society seemed to have outgrown inspiration to be something better than the ‘status quo’, which is most likely a result of their marginalization, stigmatization, and other depraving qualities. Simply put, everyone grew out of their creative capacity and individualism; however, the father used all efforts to prevent a similar outcome from his son. It is evident that the child in the short film showed promise and inventiveness. The father’s heart was broken or appeared to be after the realization that he had done to his child what every other individual had to theirs. The last thing the father wanted to do was ruin his child’s motivation and future ingenuity to fit a mediocre mold that made him extremely unhappy. It should not be forgotten that our opportunities are limitless, and we are capable of doing much more and should not be put in a box, or a reduction of a quality or standard that can be