FARENHEIT 451 (FILM)
Last Friday we had the chance to watch the movie. This movie was directed by Francois Truffaut in 1966. The plot was the same of the book: a man whose job was to burn books in a society where books are forbidden because they make people unhappy. He mets a girl, a school teacher, who arise in Montag all kind of questions not only about if the influence of books is good or bad, but if he is really happy. This curiosity leads him to read and soon he becomes a fugitive.
The characters and dialogs are mostly the same of those of the book, but some events were changed in its sequence. The setting describes a very cold place, almost always raining, and this bizarre futuristic atmosphere is reinforced with the clothes that reflect the lack of expressivity and independence.
The performance seemed sometimes trivial, but we had to admit that the special effects were quite naive but it was 1966, we can't ask for more.
It is hard to give and a conclusive opinion about the movie, as I have not finished the book, but the movie is not as amusing as the book is. Anyway, I've always thought that books' adaptations to movies are always bad, this one is not the exception.