a5c7b9f00b At the end of World War III, the world fell under the control of Father and the Tetragrammaton: a government that outlaws all forms of art and emotion. Citizens are forced to take drugs that eliminate emotions. However, "Sense Offenders": citizens who resist the laws and operate underground are continually at war with the Tetragrammaton. John Preston is a Cleric, an elite super-soldier who's mission is to hunt down and eliminate Sense Offenders with the help of a ruthless police force. One day, Preston accidentally breaks his morning dose of emotion suppressant drug and begins to feel. Soon, he begins sympathizing with the Sense Offenders and begins to understand the beauty of feeling… A beauty that the government, in which Preston spent his life serving, would like to see destroyed.
In the future, after the Third World War, the world is ruled by a totalitarian and fascist society with the leadership of 'The Father'. Arts, music, books, luxury and feelings are not acceptable, and persons uses a drug called 'Prozium' in a daily basis to repress their feelings and feel happy. The opponents to this new world are called offenders and they form the underground resistance to the system, who are destroyed by very-well trained and powerful agents called 'The Clericks'. John Preston is one of this agents, and his life changes when he misses his daily dose of 'Prozium'.
The central premise of this film is that the negative consequences of human emotion outweigh the positive consequences. In the futuristic setting, people inject a drug, 'prozium', which is supposed to annihilate emotion. Christian Bale plays the part of John Preston, a cleric in a somewhat paradoxical situation: he is charged with ensuring people do not indulge in illegal 'sense-crimes', which he does by sensing that others are sensing. Now, does that make sense?<br/><br/>I had some difficulty getting around this paradox soto engage in the film, and unfortunately it reflected a pervasive problem. If people do not feel anything, if they are genuinely emotionally dead, then why would they do anything at all? Why even move if you do not feel the desire to eat, drink, interact with another human being? There is no reason. The Latin root of the word 'emotion' is emovere - to displace and so cause to move. Equilibrium would be fitting, except the equilibrium without emotion is most likely a complete lack of any movement in the absence of any motivating drives.<br/><br/>Despite this fundamental problem, I could not seem to dislike the film. It was thought-provoking and Christian Bale gives a very engaging performance in my view. Actually, the simple fact that it made me actually think about what I found so implausible was possibly its greatest saving grace. I only wish the creators of Equilibrium had developed the main premise a little further. If prozium made humans incapable of experiencing passion - heady emotions - but allowed them to feel enough that they could engage in the actions and human expression necessary to the storyline, I believe the film could have been really good. In order to watch it, I pretty much substituted this premise anyhow, and on that basis I quite enjoyed it. If this were the intended premise, however, this was not at all clear to me. Worse that that, though, if it were the intended premise, an element of the storyline betrayed that premise. Without going into any detail, the element has to do with exploitation of certain characters by others.<br/><br/>I doubt my comments will be popular given the high "average" rating of this film (it's not really an average because the ratings aren't measurements but I won't get into that …). I'm afraid that's tough, though. When a film has serious flaws, it has serious flaws.<br/><br/>There were many other more trivial problems, not the least of which were the many Matrix-style action sequences reaching a level of incredulity that was, well, hard to believe. These I found humorous more than anything. Yet, I must admit that I still managed to get something out of the film. At the end of the day, it was thought-provoking, and so despite many flaws, it was worth watching. If only, though …
Equilibrium is one of the most wonderful movie I ever saw. It is not only the scenes of action, they are special and exiting (the end of the movie specially), but it is the message behind this action. We need to feel, to be free, if we want to be alive not only being a machine. (A clock ticking).
Mostly plays like a routine thriller with a classy cast.
A simple explanation could be:<br/><br/>Preston was driven and watched from the very beginning by Dupont to stop the dose and start feeling so he can gain the trust of the resistance and lead to themDupont tells him at the end. With or without the gun swap, he would not have been arrested before delivering the resistance.<br/><br/>Another theory is:<br/><br/>When Brandt takes Preston before Dupont (after Preston is seen crying because he was unable to stop Mary's execution), it is revealed that Brandt's weapons, not Preston's, were the ones used to kill the sweeper team in the Nethers. When Brandt thinks about this, he realizes that Preston must have switched guns with him, and we flashback to the scene in the industrial section of the Nethers, where Brandt offers Preston his gun to kill the sense offenders lined up against the wall. Since this sequence occurs after Preston massacres the sweepers to save the dog, people assume this is a major plot hole, and it is, but it was not intended to be.<br/><br/>In the original script, the following is written: And he flashes back:<br/><br/>TO HIS CAR: The house in the zone burning in the background.<br/><br/>BRANDT: Who will be left to watch…<br/><br/>A beat. Then Preston hands Brandt his gun. It should be noted that excerpt has been taken from an early version of the script (the version in which Mary lives), but the idea is the same: the switch actually took place right before the first time Preston saves the dog from being killed. We actually see Preston hand a gun that was laying on the hood of the car to Brandt before the dog execution scene (although not Brandt handing a gun to Preston), which is never alluded to in the accusations scene.<br/><br/>Further to previous answers, there are scenes and shots missing from the final cut of Equilibrium that would have explained the "gun swap" clearly. Unfortunately, they were left out for any number of reasons suchnoticeable camera shake, bad lighting/framing, lack of time/money etc. The "gun swap" plot point does actually work but now needs a little clarification. The tracking system used by Dupont's aid does not work by identifying a gun's specific location but by locating the specific gun that any Cleric is carrying at a given time. Within the the context of the film, the gun swap can be explainedfollows:<br/><br/>1. Preston kills the sweeper team in the Nethers with his own gun.<br/><br/>2. Later, when Brandt asks Preston to kill the assembled line of sense offenders, Preston hesitates and Brandt offers him his own gun. Taking it, Preston, (sensing an opportunity) swaps it with his own gun, giving Brandt the gun he used to kill the sweeper team.<br/><br/>3. Later, when Brandt has brought Preston before Dupont, the gun that killed the sweepers is located on or about Brandt's person. Pulling the gun from his pocket and reading the serial code stamped on the bottom, Brandt realises that Preston has swapped the guns. Admitting this to Dupont, Preston interrupts by saying that the only reason Brandt has his gun is because Brandt took it from him when he arrested him. This alleviates Brandt's possession of Preston's gun by making it sound like it was Brandt who killed the sweeper team with his own gun. Unfortunately, Dupont never uses the tracking system to try and locate Brandt's gun, which is actually in Preston's possession and would therefore discredit Preston's explanation.<br/><br/>4. However, Dupont isn't so easily dupedhe is shown in his private anteroom at the climax of the film with Brandt next to him, leaning on the desk. This implies that Dupont had allowed Brandt to explain himself and then used the tracking system to locate Brandt's gun on Preston or that it was all part of a master plan and he was just playing along with Preston. It is now up to the viewer to decide which piece of exposition they like the most.<br/><br/>5. Finally, all of this is somewhat moot, given that during the murder scene in the Nethers, Preston is using two guns to kill the guards. At no time do you see Preston handing more than one gun to Brandt. Preston hands Brandt a gun just before the sweeper team starts killing the dogs, and then he swaps a gun with him during the raid scene after the murders in the Nether have taken place. Assuming that the switch did take place between these two times, only one gun would have exchanged hands. When you factor this in, it becomes more than just a plot hole and branches into the realm of film goof. It shows that the regime is rotten to the core and all about power rather than preventing violent emotions, Dupont's office is filled with illicit art, decoration etc and he quotes poetry to Preston in their final confrontation. Dupont (and by implication Brandt and the inner circle) is a hypocrite who breaks the society's own rules by committing 'sense' crime, whilst executing others for doing the same. Preston may suspect this all alonghe notes Dupont's anger in a society where it is forbidden and his sliding his hand across the table in much the same wayPreston enjoys the sensation of running his hand along the handrail at the train station. Finally, Dupont states to Preston, "I'm life, I live, I breathe…I feel!"
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