Set in the near future in the city-state of Libria, 2002’s
Equilibrium is a modern dystopian work. The film focuses on the story of the
cleric John Preston (Christian Bale) as he enforces law within the city. The
Tetragrammaton Council, lead by a man called Father, govern the city and
citizens are required to take Prozium – an emotion suppressing drug. Any form
of emotion or artistic expression is banned in Libria and clerics enforce these
laws on the people. Through the use of
martial arts (known as gun kata), clerics raid the area outside of the city
limits known as the Nether to stamp out the resistance that has formed. After
his initial partner (Sean Bean) is emotionally compromised and he has to kill
him, John Preston is set on a course which makes him question his own actions.
After missing a dose of the emotionally suppressing drug, Preston begins to
experience emotions. As the film progresses and he becomes more aware of his
emotions and rediscovers life, Preston must work to hide his illicit activity
from his new partner (Taye Diggs) and the authority. By coming into contact with the resistance
movement, it becomes clear to Preston that he is the key to overthrowing the people
he once worked for.
I opted to include the main characters and a brief summary
of the film which does not give away too many details to spoil the film.
Your plot summary looks very good, it gives you an overall look of what the story is but does not give away any details of the story, it does not expose any major points in the plot of the ending. Just overall the summary is very well done. One thing i do notice about your movie, its nothing bad, it reminds me in some ways of the book Brave New world
ReplyDeleteIt's a lot like Brave New World, actually! Brave New World is one of my most favorite books, and that's how I came across this movie some years ago. I'm a huge fan of dystopian books and movies. Brave New World does also use drugs to control it's people, but it does it in a very different way (quite unusual, actually).
ReplyDeleteI have never seen this movie but I think your plot summary is a good one. I like the details you included they made me want to continue reading and at the end I wanted to see the movie. Your summary had me hanging on every detail. I do not think you gave too much information away in the summary. Your overall summary was written very well and your inclusion of the overall idea of the film is very good.
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