What were the pills everyone were taking during the movie?
I’d say they were pills to subdue their emotions and keep them dull. They would take these pills until the they would get ill and needed their blood replaced with clean blood, without knowing or remembering what happened to them (note that Montag didn’t know that whatever happened to his wife was very common). Any ideas?
They are uppers and downers. Like today's society they are all hooked on pills to alter their consciousness to suit. They don't even have names, they go by color.
shareWhat did you make of the illness of Montag's wife and the procedure she had to undergo with the medics? Was this perhaps because of the pills?
shareWhat did you make of the illness of Montag's wife and the procedure she had to undergo with the medics? Was this perhaps because of the pills?
I see. So that scene shows how even medical treatment is very impersonal.
shareI do not know about the movie,but in the book, the pills were sleeping pills.
shareWhat were the pills everyone were taking during the movie?
I’d say they were pills to subdue their emotions and keep them dull
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Exactly, but not a huge thing at all in 1950s so just like the "selfie" thing it was brilliant of Bradbury to see this [ie PRESCRIPTION drugs] as the huge problem it now is in america [and americanized countiries like Oz].
They are all covered by Type 1 [of 7] as:
(1) Central Nervous System (CNS) Depressants
CNS Depressants slow down the operations of the brain and the body. Examples of CNS Depressants include alcohol, barbiturates, anti-anxiety tranquilizers (e.g., Valium, Librium, Xanax, Prozac, and Thorazine), GHB (Gamma Hydroxybutyrate), Rohypnol and many other anti-depressants (e.g., as Zoloft, Paxil).
Of course ZOLOFT is the big one and is the subject of The Sixth Sense and [although not mentioned by name] American Beauty. Nootropics as in the 2014 movie Lucy is also one of these.
Michael Moore tries to bring out the facts in Bowling for Columbine that ALL of the high school massacres were by dudes on Zoloft - but nobody is listening.
http://www.kindleflippages.com/ablog/