FAHRENHEIT 451 REVIEW.

Fahrenheit 451 (1966), is a movie directed by François Truffaut, based on the book with the same name, the film starred Oskar Werner as Montag and Julie Christie, who was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role award for the dual roles of Linda (Mildred) Montag and Clarisse. Fahrenheit tells the story of Montag, a happy married man who lives in Western; Montag a firefighter who is especially in charge of burning books that according to a totalitarian government had to be burned because those contain false information that would cause confusion, pain, discord and suffering among people, that’s why books are not allowed. From the very beginning the story makes emphasis on a civilization enslaved and governed by the media that can be easily compared with current civilization, it would be possible to say that Fahrenheit is an image of nowadays world, in which there are people who decide for themselves but some others who prefer someone decide for them. The social criticism developed in this story is the most important aspect, because it has an important teaching about the value of having own ideas and how terrible would be the world without variety of thoughts.

Other important aspects to be considered from the movie are: on one hand the dialogues, and on this I just noticed that those were robotized, I wanted to have more expression, I expected to feel more from the movie. On the other hand, the settings, the special effects and the costumes are simple and not so elaborated, but it is important to realize that the movie was filmed more than 10 years back, and maybe what was amazing at that time doesn´t represent so much for us. In general I liked the story and I think its content is so interesting.