Equilibrium
Equilibrium is a 2002 American science fiction film written and directed by Kurt Wimmer, and starring Christian Bale, Emily Watson, and Taye Diggs. The film follows Bale as John Preston, an enforcement officer in a future in which feelings and artistic expression are outlawed, and a society where its citizens are forced to take psychoactive drugs to suppress emotion. After accidentally missing a dose, Preston awakens and begins to uncover the suspicious inner workings of the regime governing the totalitarian state.
Plot
Established by survivors of World War III, the totalitarian city-state of Libria blames human emotion as the root of all conflicts. It strictly outlaws all activities or objects that stimulate emotion, with violators labeled Sense Offenders and sentenced to death. The population has to take a daily injection of the emotion-suppressing drug called Prozium II. Libria is governed by the Tetragrammaton Council, led by "Father", who communicates propaganda through giant video screens. The police force is led by the Grammaton Clerics, elite fighters trained in the art of gun kata. Clerics frequently raid homes to search for and destroy illegal materials – art, literature and music – executing violators on the spot. A resistance movement, known as the "Underground", emerges to topple Father and the Tetragrammaton Council.
Cast
- Anatole Taubman
- Angus Macfadyen
- Brian Conley
- Brian W. Cook
- Christian Ebal
- Christian Kahrmann
- David Hemmings
- Dirk Martens
- Dominic Purcell
- Emily Watson
- Florian Fitz
- Francesco Cabras
- John Keogh
- Klaus Schindler
- Kurt Wimmer
- Maria Pia Calzone
- Mehmet Kurtuluş
- Sean Bean
- Sean Pertwee
- Taye Diggs
- William Fichtner
More details
| author | Kurt Wimmer |
|---|---|
| director | Kurt Wimmer |
| editor | Tom Rolf William Yeh |
| events | revenge revolution |
| genre | action science fiction |
| keywords | arrest begin emotional breakdown gun fu gun kata hide katana kill manufacturing plant meet police force read single parent totalitarian totalitarian state turn uprise video screen w. b. yeats world war iii |
| musicBy | Klaus Badelt |
| producer | Jan de Bont Lucas Foster |
| productionCompany | Blue Tulip Productions Dimension Films |
| publisher | Miramax Films |
| recordedAt | Berlin Europa |
| theme | atonement dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction action security and surveillance |