Fahrenheit 451: Film Review

This is a François Truffaut's film adaption from Ray Bradbury's book, Fahrenheit 451. The film tries in a very contextualized environment to reflect the original script as accurate for the author. It is a Drama, Sci-Fi Triller film released on 16 November 1966 in USA. The film shows a totalitarian and oppressive future in which society has been forbidden to read; books are prohibited. Guy Montag is a fireman, but instead of his role to extinguish fires he burns books, it is the duty of firefighters to burn any books or collections that have been reported by informants. This act of burning books is a fear from the government to prevent individual thinking or create some kind of consciousness. The government uses wall television screen to deliver information and manipulate the public. The name Fahrenheit 451 is paper's combustion temperature.

The main character, Guy Montag has this work of burning books, he is a lonely person, even being married with Linda who is trapped by this TV manipulation. Montag knows Clarisse and she starts to make Montag more about the books, he is curious about that and begin to read confiscated books. It is through this relationship that he begins to question the government's motives behind book-burning. Soon Montag must decide whether to return to his job or run away knowing well the consequences that he could face if captured.

The story reminds the time when the Inquisition was settled during late Mid-Ages and Renaissance, the church fear that people begun to be seduced by the ideas of Illumination century and that the reason had the only truth. The government in this case impose control and when people is controlled there is no demand for the rupture of the social contract. The use of media is the way that government makes control; the books are a symbol that there is knowledge, and knowledge gives power, the power is the thing that government want to have and won't share.

The less that have the privilege to read, as Clarisse for example, are the ones who want to share the one of those things that human beings have to protect, the information and knowledge.

It is a very interesting setting due to the age in which was filmed. The story makes people to be conscious about the need to know and uses that knowledge in order to do the correct, in order to build a better society that always is in constant change.

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Fahrenheit 451, Review

Director: Francois Truffaut

Year: 1966

Fahrenheit 451 is a movie based on a novel written by Ray Bradbury, one of the greatest writers of science fiction and fantasy in the world. This movie is directed by François Truffaut. This film shows a future society where books represent a threat to governments because through these, people can access to knowledge that lead them to reflect and analyze their own existence. For that, the only important thing to the government is that its citizens follow its rules and regulators without question anything. In keeping with that concern to the government, the firemen do not go homes to extinguish fire, but to burn the books that may be the source of riots and rebellion by its citizens. The main character of this story is Montag, a fireman who at the beginning of the story follows orders without ask himself nothing, after, due to an encounter with a woman called Clarisse, he will begin to reflect about his life and his wife’s life. As a result of that meeting, Montag starts to get in secret from his colleagues and his boss some books to read them at his home, but his wife was angry with him and decides to denounce him, and that is why following the orders of his boss that he has to burn his own house. Before that, Clarisse and her family have been discovered and the woman achieves to escape and tells Montag that she will go to live with people that appreciate books and as her they have managed to escape from the authorities. At the end Montag escapes to meet them.

This is an excellent film that show people how important is question everything that surround us, because sometimes we are following rules without think if they are right or not. People in general need to be able to reflect and analyze their own lives and take decisions according with their own convictions.

Finally, although it is an old film, it is a good adaptation of the book with special effects of a futuristic city.

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Fahrenheit 451, Review

Director: François Truffaut

Year : 1966

Fahrenheit 451 is a movie based on a novel written by Ray Bradbury, one of the greatest writers of science fiction and fantasy in the world. This movie is directed by François Truffaut. This film shows a future society where books represent a threat to governments because through these, people can access to knowledge that lead them to reflect and analyze their own existence. For that, the only important thing to the government is that its citizens follow its rules and regulators without question anything. In keeping with that concern to the government, the firemen do not go homes to extinguish fire, but to burn the books that may be the source of riots and rebellion by its citizens. The main character of this story is Montag, a fireman who at the beginning of the story follows orders without ask himself nothing, after, due to an encounter with a woman called Clarisse, he will begin to reflect about his life and his wife’s life. As a result of that meeting, Montag starts to get in secret from his colleagues and his boss some books to read them at his home, but his wife was angry with him and decides to denounce him, and that is why following the orders of his boss that he has to burn his own house. Before that, Clarisse and her family have been discovered and the woman achieves to escape and tells Montag that she will go to live with people that appreciate books and as her they have managed to escape from the authorities. At the end Montag escapes to meet them.

This is an excellent film that show people how important is question everything that surround us, because sometimes we are following rules without think if they are right or not. People in general need to be able to reflect and analyze their own lives and take decisions according with their own convictions.

Finally, although it is an old film, it is a good adaptation of the book with special effects of a futuristic city.