FAHRENHEIT 451 is a film about maintaining individuality and personality. Literature, an artform that rests on one-on-one connection and interaction(like love) is under fire in this world. Firemen in this world burn books, magazines, newspapers. Taking it’s place is TV shows and top of the line appliances and a society of firemen who burn books. One of these firemen turns renegade. He falls in love with a woman who perhaps reminds him of the love he once shared with his wife(both are played by Julie Christie, totally gorgeous and wonderful). She is an outlaw who lives in a commune of subversives and rebels.

Truffaut’s first film in colour has a very toybox look of the kind Wes Anderson now favours, it gives the film a feeling of a dream, a waking reality. It has an ending that is magnificent and says loads about the tragedy of individual resistance and endurance.