Movie
1966
Fahrenheit 451 is a 1966 British dystopian drama film directed by François Truffaut and starring Julie Christie, Oskar Werner, and Cyril Cusack. Based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Ray Bradbury, the film takes place in a controlled society in an oppressive future, in which the government sends out firemen to destroy all literature to prevent revolution and thinking.
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There are many people who buy tons of books and never bother to actually read them. Sometimes it is done on purpose - volumes of Dostoyevsky, Sartre or Proust on your bookshelves can give you the image of an intellectual and thus enable you to impress your house guests. But, sometimes books get bought and never read simply because you never get enough time to read them. In the case of this author, the sadly and unju…More
Sometimes, after watching a movie, that “on paper”, should prove an interesting and engaging experience, it leaves me baffled and slightly concerned that I must have missed something. Fahrenheit 451 is a complete mystery to me. Practically nothing works in this movie and I mean nothing. The direction is directionless and pretentious, the acting is bloody awful, the special effects are ridiculous, the music, not exac…More
