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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