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A very bizare and interesting film which throws out some thought provoking idea's. An adaptation of a Ray Bradbury novel of the same name which is not as clear or concise as the book but is a pretty good adaptation. The film stars Oskar Werner and Julie Christie, who give excellent performances, if sometimes Werner is a little wooden. Anyone who is interested in futuristic or Big Brother style films should watch this, its not as good as Brazil or 1984 but it can be placed in that bracket.
Werner is a fireman, but in this version of the future firemen do not put out fire they start them! To be precise they burn books, which have been outlawed along with any sort of free thinking. They ride in their rather ridiculous looking fire engine to the scene, where they have recived a tip off that someone posses a book, they break in confiscate the books then burn them in the street. The owners are dragged off to be interogated and are unlikely to be seen again.
Werners wife, Christie is a drug addict, like most houswives it would appear and spend all her time interacting with the t.v. which really hit the mark when you consider the current state of our "interactive t.v.'s" she is a neurotic living in a fantasy world where she beleives she stars in a soap opera. The society portrayed here has strong facist undertones and reflects the fact that the French director lived through the Nazi occupation of France.
Werner meets a young girl who turns his mind towards the content of the books he has been burning for so many years. He starts to do the unthinkable, he starts to read the books rather than burning them and soon he is helping his young friend and stashing books all over his house, just like the people he has been hunting down. But as you may guess it all comes out, he is betrayed by his wife and taken into the custody of the state system.
The film is now very dated and some parts will make you laugh and some of them are amazingly accurate but it is a very uncomfortable film which seems to struggle a little with its own direction. I must say when I first watched it I was very intrigued and some scenes really stuck in my head like the strange way they read the credits out loud, christie's character's obsession with soap opera's and the newspaper that was basically no more than a comic, due to the banning of words.
Some will enjoy this film and some will think its complete rubbish but in its day I imagine it was quite clever and still has some resonance in today's society. I think any sci-fi fans or ray bradbury fans will enjoy.
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