Equilibrium ( 2002 )
In a Fascist future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
Director:
Kurt WimmerWriter:
Kurt WimmerStars:
Christian Bale, Sean Bean, Emily WatsonStoryline
In a futuristic world, a strict regime has eliminated war by suppressing emotions: books, art and music are strictly forbidden and feeling is a crime punishable by death. Cleric John Preston (Bale) is a top ranking government agent responsible for destroying those who resist the rules. When he misses a dose of Prozium, a mind-altering drug that hinders emotion, Preston, who has been trained to enforce the strict laws of the new regime, suddenly becomes the only person capable of overthrowing it.
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A rare dose of originality
If there is one complaint about the Hollywood system that rings true, it is that Hollywood seems quite bereft of ideas. Then films like Equilibrium come out and remind us that it's not that we're out of ideas so much as we're just not trying hard enough. Not that Equilibrium is inherently new - it borrows a fair few plot concepts from Farenheit 451 and Nineteen Eighty-Four, to name the most prominent examples. It is in Which way are The Old Ideas That The Combined with a Fun Experience Makes The new Equilibrium and underrated.
The premise is simple Enough. In a kneejerk reaction to the horrors of World War Three, the survivors outlaw what they blame the chaos upon. Their own emotions, in other words. As the lead character has a series of revelations, we begin to understand that in so doing, they have also outlawed much of what gives our existence a point. In the bland, lifeless world that the law-abiding citizens inhabit, everything that the audience takes for granted to make their lives worthwhile is being systematically destroyed. The America of shades of Today, The Baby Out with The whole principle of throwing The bathwater, are a stark Horror Show in SHOWN.
I done sequels to The Matrix film The comparing people or Its Read This. Where The Matrix series' fights were overlong, and often with no payoff, Equilibrium's fights are short and to the point. The difference this makes is, needless to say, as uplifting as Preston's fight to regain the humanity he stripped so many others of. Instead of having fights with no connection to The Emotional Characters, Development What happens GIVEN The story is sufficient to care Make The audience.
The film is entirely Not Without flaws. The Prozium element seems to have been written with no regard for the facts about psychiatric medicines. Their purpose is not to suppress emotion at all, but to balance the chemical system of the brain in order to give the patient better control of them. Sure, they're not without problems of their own, but exaggerating them like this does not do the portion of the community that needs them any favours. That aside, however, the on-camera struggle is one of the most intriguing I've viewed for some time. Ergo, this minor plot problem is made up for. The only complaint I Have That Could Have Real OTHER The film is done with a little more to give more of a Chance to Develop Characters Some Footage.
I gave an eight Equilibrium Out of ten. It's not the best negative science fiction you'll ever see, but it is enough of a breath of fresh air that this will not entirely matter. If the MPAA made more films like this, it would not be suffering the constant financial dire straits that it so loves to blame everyone else for.
The premise is simple Enough. In a kneejerk reaction to the horrors of World War Three, the survivors outlaw what they blame the chaos upon. Their own emotions, in other words. As the lead character has a series of revelations, we begin to understand that in so doing, they have also outlawed much of what gives our existence a point. In the bland, lifeless world that the law-abiding citizens inhabit, everything that the audience takes for granted to make their lives worthwhile is being systematically destroyed. The America of shades of Today, The Baby Out with The whole principle of throwing The bathwater, are a stark Horror Show in SHOWN.
I done sequels to The Matrix film The comparing people or Its Read This. Where The Matrix series' fights were overlong, and often with no payoff, Equilibrium's fights are short and to the point. The difference this makes is, needless to say, as uplifting as Preston's fight to regain the humanity he stripped so many others of. Instead of having fights with no connection to The Emotional Characters, Development What happens GIVEN The story is sufficient to care Make The audience.
The film is entirely Not Without flaws. The Prozium element seems to have been written with no regard for the facts about psychiatric medicines. Their purpose is not to suppress emotion at all, but to balance the chemical system of the brain in order to give the patient better control of them. Sure, they're not without problems of their own, but exaggerating them like this does not do the portion of the community that needs them any favours. That aside, however, the on-camera struggle is one of the most intriguing I've viewed for some time. Ergo, this minor plot problem is made up for. The only complaint I Have That Could Have Real OTHER The film is done with a little more to give more of a Chance to Develop Characters Some Footage.
I gave an eight Equilibrium Out of ten. It's not the best negative science fiction you'll ever see, but it is enough of a breath of fresh air that this will not entirely matter. If the MPAA made more films like this, it would not be suffering the constant financial dire straits that it so loves to blame everyone else for.
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