Finding Equilibrium
My roommate bought the Equilibrium DVD this weekend and we watched it. First, the movie premise: It’s the future well after World War III. The entire population takes emotion-suppressing drugs because they found that emotions are the root of all of humanities problems—crime, war, etc. A group called the Grammaton Clerics (think super-police/SS) have been formed to find anyone not taking the drug and to destroy all forms of art and such. Basically, your semi-typical dark future in the vein of 1984 or Fahrenheit 451.
Anyway, Christian Bale does a great job playing the main character (Taye Diggs is good, too). The fight scenes are excellent and very gun-heavy, both of which you might expect from a movie in which the Clerics are taught a fighting style known as “Gun-Kata”. Equilibrium isn’t an especially deep or significant movie, despite the whole focus on emotion, personal freedom, etc., but it’s still a very fun flick. It’s certainly worth renting if for nothing else than the excellent fight scenes.
Posted Monday May 19, 2003 in Miscellaneous by Chris Curtis
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