Equilibrium
Equilibrium is a 2002 American science fiction dystopian action film written and directed by Kurt Wimmer, and starring Christian Bale, Emily Watson, and Taye Diggs. Miramax Films released Equilibrium on December 6, 2002, and it grossed $5.3 million on a budget of $20 million.
Plot
Libria, a totalitarian city-state established by survivors of World War III, blames human emotion as the cause for the war. Any activity or object that stimulates emotion is strictly forbidden. Those in violation are labelled "Sense Offenders" and sentenced to death. The population is forced to take a daily injection of "Prozium II" to suppress emotion. Libria is governed by the Tetragrammaton Council, led by "Father", who communicates propaganda through giant video screens throughout the city. At the pinnacle of law enforcement are the Grammaton Clerics, trained in the martial 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 Bale
- 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 force gun fu gun kata hide katana kill law enforcement manufacturing plant meet plan read single father 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 |