Fahrenheit 451 (DVD)

...lives. Here firemen burn books, Fahrenheit 451 being the temperature at which book paper burns. Taking the Bradbury book, Truffaut was obviously commenting on French life through the use of an English book, written about a future fascist state, and in so making a quintessentially French film, but in English! Confused?! Well quite! So it seems is this film. I understand that film was difficult to make, and almost never got made, and you can tell. ...
...from the viewers feeling of discomfort with the subject matter. The premise, (which is better covered in my review of the book) is a future society when all printed materials like books are banned. Free thinkers, in fact just simply people who dare to think for themselves are seen as a threat to the state. Conformity is the way forward, and the individual is hounded to the point of extinction. People watch huge screen TV’s and interact with their ...

theblackstar 26.10.2004 · Read full review
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In my idea, this is one of movies, (perhaps the only one..) that has absilutely nothing to envy to the book fron which it was developed. (The book itself is a master work, that only a wonderful writer like Bradbury would have been capable to write.) Above all, what strikes me more is the atmosphere of the movie. The world introduced from the movie is clearly (and willingly) false, and the thing is, in my opinion, not only due to the classical hyconograpy ...
...but also to the need to reproduce the total estrangement of that world. The whole book is crossed from a subtle feeling: there is something strange in the air, you can perceive it, you can feel that something doesn't go well, but is difficult to understand what it should be... in the movie, also, this feeling is very well and easily perceiving! The history, very famous ideeed, is that of a future world where people spend their time in a reciprocal ...

shaoli2 02.06.2004 · Read full review
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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 ...
...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 ...

gray001 21.02.2005 · Read full review
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