_This is a spoiler, but also a moment - a scene that I found very poignant, and I believe put a bow-tie on the story._ **Just read the bold-faced words if** TL;DR: At the end, **amongst the, "Book People,"** those who commit one book to memory (and become that book, living to mirror it's story) **an elderly man** on his death bed is seen passing on his chosen book to a young nephew.... He **reads** a passage then the boy repeats it. The passage we hear is of the old man saying **he does not believe he loved his Father, and that his Father died as he feared during the first snows.** **It is** early **Fall...then** the scene changes to early **Winter. And, as the boy is seen reciting the same passage on his own, we see the old man has just passed away as the first snows fall.** A self-fulfilling prophecy; a perfect mimicry of the fiction become real. So sad in a certain light, but also so beautiful. And, interweaving with the others walking about, re-reciting their books endlessly to preserve them, our protagonist **Montag and Clarisse** his true dance partner **fall into step briefly, separate then again walk alongside one another.**

I think I saw this as a preteen watching, "Creature Features," double-headers on KTVU hosted by Bob Wilkins, although between channel 2, 11, 20 & 36, I usually watched horror and science-fiction movies through a weekend night until channel sign-offs early the next morning. No wonder I could only read those genres of literature. No wonder I can't differentiate the books from the movies. I've seen this eight times now.

It may be klunky, and the classic Bernard Herrmann soundtrack may be jarring, but ==this is a great film.==