Equilibrium (2002)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 107m
Director: Kurt Wimmer
Cast: Christian Bale, Sean Bean, Emily Watson, Angus Macfadyen, William Fichtner
Synopsis:
In a society of the future, emotions have been numbed in the name of peace, via daily injections of a sense blocking drug. An elite extermination guard known as a cleric dimly grows aware of what he has been missing.
Review:
The idea had been done before (notably in Invasion of the Body Snatchers), and would be done again (Equals), but it doesn't matter: this was a shameless appropriation of Matrix iconography with a thousand gaping holes in the movie's internal reality. The first rule of any totalitarian state is surveillance, and John Preston moves around as if not remotely under suspicion, while a 'forbidden' adopted dog somehow makes it to his flat; one could go on. Even the fragments of high culture, chosen to illustrate how art makes us feel, are hijacked from other movies (Yeats's Heaven's embroidered cloths, and Beethoven's 9th Symphony).
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 107m
Director: Kurt Wimmer
Cast: Christian Bale, Sean Bean, Emily Watson, Angus Macfadyen, William Fichtner
Synopsis:
In a society of the future, emotions have been numbed in the name of peace, via daily injections of a sense blocking drug. An elite extermination guard known as a cleric dimly grows aware of what he has been missing.
Review:
The idea had been done before (notably in Invasion of the Body Snatchers), and would be done again (Equals), but it doesn't matter: this was a shameless appropriation of Matrix iconography with a thousand gaping holes in the movie's internal reality. The first rule of any totalitarian state is surveillance, and John Preston moves around as if not remotely under suspicion, while a 'forbidden' adopted dog somehow makes it to his flat; one could go on. Even the fragments of high culture, chosen to illustrate how art makes us feel, are hijacked from other movies (Yeats's Heaven's embroidered cloths, and Beethoven's 9th Symphony).
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 107m
Director: Kurt Wimmer
Cast: Christian Bale, Sean Bean, Emily Watson, Angus Macfadyen, William Fichtner
Synopsis:
In a society of the future, emotions have been numbed in the name of peace, via daily injections of a sense blocking drug. An elite extermination guard known as a cleric dimly grows aware of what he has been missing.
Review:
The idea had been done before (notably in Invasion of the Body Snatchers), and would be done again (Equals), but it doesn't matter: this was a shameless appropriation of Matrix iconography with a thousand gaping holes in the movie's internal reality. The first rule of any totalitarian state is surveillance, and John Preston moves around as if not remotely under suspicion, while a 'forbidden' adopted dog somehow makes it to his flat; one could go on. Even the fragments of high culture, chosen to illustrate how art makes us feel, are hijacked from other movies (Yeats's Heaven's embroidered cloths, and Beethoven's 9th Symphony).