华氏451度

特吕弗的第一部彩色片，也是其作品中最富社會及政治意識的一部。在未來世界裡，書籍一概被禁止，讀書便是犯罪，所有書籍都要交出焚毀。消防員的任務不是滅火救人，而是焚書和捕捉讀書人。於是有一些愛書者，把書背熟，希望日後可以流傳，這些人稱為「書人」。男主角本是一個忠心的消防員，焚書是他的職責。有次認識了一個女孩，受到她的影響，漸漸改變了人生觀，發現了書本中原來充滿了靈性的世界。經過這種溫馨親切的心靈生活，使她不能再忍受冷酷無情的機械社會。最後，他偷閱書本的背叛行為被妻子告發，他與情人設法逃往另一個符合他們理想的美麗世界，在那裡有書籍的存在，重複人類真正的生活。 　　改編自美國作家雷·布烈伯里的科幻小說。（電影雙周刊）」Based on the 1951 Ray Bradbury novel of the same name. Guy Montag is a firefighter who lives in a lonely, isolated society where books have been outlawed by a government fearing an independent-thinking public. It is the duty of firefighters to burn any books on sight or said collections that have been reported by informants. People in this society including Montag's wife are drugged into compliancy and get their information from wall-length television screens. After Montag falls in love with book-hoarding Clarisse, he begins to read confiscated books. It is through this relationship that he begins to question the government's motives behind book-burning. Montag is soon found out, and he must decide whether to return to his job or run away knowing full well the consequences that he could face if captured.