FAHRENHEIT 451 IN OUR VISUAL WORLD
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The image of television antennas begins Fahrenheit 451, the movie based on Ray Bradbury's novel of the same title. Truffaut the film's director clearly projects our future the sciene of television antennas. The idea in the book and in the film is that the books are illegal and government forbids them. The director of the film and the author of the book tried to show us today's world. Visual representation of the story clarified Bradbury's themes of human companionship, book burning detriment to ones' soul and our beliefs in reality and truth.
Truffaut uses this image of the burning books effectively by showing us how the burning books effect different characters. The bonfire in which books are burning and the pages are flying like black "pigeons" in the sky. All neighbors are watching this execution and not even one muscle of their face is moving, they are numb to the world around them and even to each other. The little boy tries to take one of the burning books and starts looking for something in the book. The book is taken away from him by adults, because books are forbidden by government in the society and no one could dare to even look at it...