Plot

In a future dystopian society, all printed materials have been banned. A totalitarian government employs a force known as Firemen to seek out and burn all literature, permitting them to search anyone, anywhere, at any time.

"Fahrenheit 451" is supposed to be the temperature at which book paper catches fire, as the protagonist Guy Montag (Oskar Werner) explains in a scene at the beginning. Montag is a senior and respected Fireman who seems happy enough with his life until he is approached by a young woman named Clarisse (Julie Christie) on his way home from work one day. She starts up a conversation with him, and the two become friendly. She bewilders him but challenges him to think and feel ... and read. When he arrives home he finds his wife (also played by Julie Christie) sedated and watching the wallscreen (interactive TV of sorts).




As his doubts and his friendship with Clarisse grow, he starts to secretly take home, hoard, and read some of the books he finds in the course of his daily work, and as he reads, he becomes obsessed with the books. They become his mistress, and are what finally make him feel affection and warmth.
 






At the house of a book collector, the captain (Cyril Cusack) talks with Montag at length about how books change people and make them want to be better than others, which is considered anti-social.





The book collector, a middle-aged woman rather preferes to burn herself and the house so she can die with her books. That night, Montag dreams of Clarisse as the book collector who killed herself. That same night,Clarisse's house is raided, but she escapes through a trapdoor in the roof thanks to her uncle. Montag breaks into the captain's office looking for information about the missing Clarisse, and is caught, but not punished.

Montag meets with Clarisse and helps her break back into her house to destroy papers that would bring the Firemen to others like her. She tells him of the "book people," a hidden sect of people who flout the law, each of whom have memorized a single book to keep it alive.





Later, Montag tells the captain he is resigning, but is convinced to go on one more call, which turns out to be Montag's own house. Linda leaves the house, telling Montag that she couldn't live with his book obsession anymore and leaves him to be punished by the Firemen. Angrily, he firstly destroys the bedroom and television before setting fire to the books. The captain lectures him about the books, and pulls a last book from Montag's coat, for which Montag kills him.

He escapes and finds the book people, where he views his "capture" on television, staged to keep the masses calm. Eventually Montag selects a book to memorize and becomes one of them.

based on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451_%281966_film%29 (4.12.2013)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060390/reviews?ref_=tt_ql_8(4.12.2013)