whats the point of the title "farenheit 9/11"?

[Boroda]

Originally posted by Holden McGroin
451 is the temperature where paper burns, and the book refers to censorship and therefore to book burning.

Not to censorship, but to brainwashing. In "451" society books were dangerous because they prevented people from being fed by TV.

From what I sometimes see on this board - the title was a brilliant choice.

The film itself didn't impress me. I could predict almost every scene. Moore definetly learned a lot from Soviet documentary school. I mean - from a professional political propaganda school that used good artistic methods. But compared to "Ordinary fascism" it's a college student work.

[Holden McGroin]

Isn't bookburning a form of censorship?  I always thought it was.

[Boroda]

Originally posted by Holden McGroin
Isn't bookburning a form of censorship?  I always thought it was.

In case when every book has to be burned and the owner punished - IMHO it's not censorship but total ban, in favour of government-controlled TV -> brainwashing.

This novel was very popular in USSR, and considered an "anti-totalitarian" masterpiece by state propaganda.

I wonder why they banned "1984" in USSR. Orwell wrote a brilliant book about where Western society can drift. Provided with comments that corresponded with Party line it could be printed without any problems.