Who knew that tai-chi didn’t suck?
Synopsis: Starring a pre-Batman Begins Christian Bale, Taye Diggs and Sean Bean, Equilibrium combines elements of The Matrix, 1984 and Farenheit 451. Set in a not-so-distant future where humanity only just barely survived a third World War, a fascist government has arisen. This regime control what it believes is the cause of war: human emotion. All citizens are required to take an emotion-dulling drug called ‘Prozium’ twice a day. Those who engage in emotion are ’sense offenders’ and are carted off for summary combustion. Emotion-inducing artifacts of the pre-WWIII world (literature, perfume, artwork, etc.) are hunted down and similarly incinerated.
Behind it all is ‘Father’ a sort of evil Doctor Phil (is that an oxymoron?) whose image is broadcast to the robotic masses.
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