THE MOVIE

Based on the Ray Bradbury novel of the same name set in a dystopian future in which it is the fire brigade's job to burn banned books. One of the firemen rebels and flees to the forests where he joins a group of dissidents whose set task it is to preserve these banned books. (They seem to include almost all books since a list of inoffensive classics such as Jane Eyre is among them.) They "preserve" these books by each of them memorizing the complete text of a particular book..

Weird, yes. And wonderful. Everything science fiction is on about. Thus it should come as no surprise that this film was made in the 1960s by a French director (Francois Truffaut). Hollywood just seems to lack the intellectual capacity and moral integrity to make films like these...

THE MOVIE

Weird, yes. And wonderful. Everything science fiction is on about. Thus it should come as no surprise that this film was made in the 1960s by a French director (Francois Truffaut). Hollywood just seems to lack the intellectual capacity and moral integrity to make films like these...

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