Overview: Releases: Reviews: Cast crew: Screenshots: Details: News: Forum: Action. In the future, after a Third World War has decimated much of the Earth's population, a new nation known as Libria rises up under the unquestioned leadership of Dupont (Angus Mac. Fadyen). Believing human emotions and their expression were to blame for the failings of past societies, The Father has decreed that all citizens must take a daily dose of Prozia II, a drug which levels out the emotional landscape, and that all forms of creative expression are against the law; violating either regulation can be punished by death. John Preston (Christian Bale) is a Grammaton, an elite law enforcement officer who tracks down and punishes . Preston becomes aware of an underground of rebels who refuse to take their medication and have embraced art and literature, and he finds himself becoming infatuated with one of their number, Mary O'Brian (Emily Watson). Equilibrium is the second feature- length directorial effort from Kurt Wimmer, whose screenwriting credits include The Thomas Crown Affair and Sphere. Talk: Equilibrium (2. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Talk:Equilibrium (2002 film) 'Gun Kata', which is a plot element in this movie, and has no other existence, is mentioned here in context. There is no need for a. Title: Equilibrium (2002) 7.5 /10. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? You must be a registered. Equilibrium 2002 Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller. Equilibrium 2002 Action / Drama. Equilibrium (2002) Where To Watch: Read More. Equilibrium (2002) Most Read A.V. Find trailers, reviews, synopsis, awards and cast information for Equilibrium (2002) - Kurt Wimmer on AllMovie - A man who dares to feel finds his life in danger Subtitle search by release name. There is no need for a separate article, particularly not one which consists almost entirely of unfounded speculation and a lengthy quote from the movie. If you feel the subject needs more coverage, please do it here. Fi. P 1. 1: 4. 6, 2. Aug 2. 00. 4 (UTC)Thanks for your edits, The Anome! Once again I am sad to realise that . It shows many similarities. The utopian world in which emotion has been repressed for the good of mankind. A war in which most of the population was wiped out. A central character who learns how to oppose the government by learning to feel as humans in the past did. A revolutionary female character who teaches/encourages the protagonist to feel as he does. A final riot which sees an uncertain outcome - the ending of both is virtually identical, other than that D5. Government hands, unlike Bale's character. Addy (but cant be arsed signing in) 1. BSTThoughts about the movie. How general free will, and our emotions are really precious things. The drug given to the people provides a cold existance, and allows them to go day by day doing what needs doing, without ever worrying. They are walking zombies that do not create anything new, they just keep the processes of old going. They are biological machines, going from task to task without ever experiencing something. Some people were born outside of this society, or defected from it when they missed a few doses of the drug. These people realize how precious our emotions are, and that it is better to face death, rather than live all their life in the safety of an empty world. I love the way the movie presents the clerics anger and suprise at the things that touch him. There was a pen for dogs at the outside of one rebel encampment, and he could not toss a puppy back in to have it shot. Freedom from the drug touched him so deeply that he had trouble hiding it. The lessons of this movie are that blind obedience is safe but in the end draining. Emptiness can never replace happiness, and in the end there are things worth dying for. The movie also showed that even though the people were told it was for their own good, the leader of the society did not exist, and the man that controlled him did himself commit a sense crime. He wanted to be in control, and the messages to the people and the drug gave himself that power, even if he was alone as a person for all his life. Overall, life is not about working or being productive - that is what we do to keep going - it is about living and experiencing new things, because otherwise we are already dead, we just don't know it.- Feel free to edit this and make my writing more clear : ). Please use the talk page only to discuss the article, not the movie in itself; this is not an Internet forum. Naphra. Poor box office performance. Critical reaction was decidedly mixed, but some reviews were overwhemingly positive. Given the amount of universally- panned films that still receive wide theatrical releases, it seems curious that this would not be given a chance to find an audience. On the IMDb Trivia page, it claims the film had already turned a profit overseas and Miramax didn't want to risk losing money on a wide release. However this doesn't hold water because the worldwide gross was (as you noted) only $5 million and IMDb estimates its budget at around $2. In order to turn a profit it would have to gross at least double that. This profit for Dimension had nothing what ever to do with . This is a common practice in the film industry and has also occurred with other films such as David Mamet's State and Main. The following is what writer/director Kurt Wimmer stated - . Also, the worst thing it had against it was that it was in profit due to foreign pre- sales prior to release. The studio saw no reason to risk further monies on P& A and risk turning a money- maker into a money- loser. The Tau (which is a cross shaped like a T) has been used by billions of people throughout history as a symbol of divinity, the triple Tau is seen in many symbols of Freemasonry and is still in use in contemporary culture. The quad Tau is likewise currently in use by various organisations, I just find it hard that something so steeped in mysticism would just be some crappy reference to a T model Ford. Jachin 1. 7: 4. 4, 2 October 2. UTC)I always figured it was T for Tetragrammaton, and four of them because Tetra is four. I guess it's hard to divorce Huxley from any dystopia, but I don't think referencing the Model T from A Brave New World was his intent. I noticed that throught the voice- overs and texts the Cleric is referd to as the . My guess is either the director did not know the meaning of the word or did not care but in the end was persuaded to limit the usage. I would even go so far as to say that this was one reason why the movie was not widely released or promoted in order to avoid any lawsuits from Christian organisations for using God's name in such a bad light, or something like that - - and we all know that you should not use His name in vain. Maybe somebody can find the truth and correct the entry. Grammaton - it seemed to me that the Tetragrammaton was the overall organization, while Grammaton was used to refer to the clerics themselves (i. Grammaton Cleric 1st class vs. Cleric of the Tetragrammaton). And I highly doubt that alleged religious overtones were the reason why it received a limited release - as was pointed out elsewhere on the page, Kurt Wimmer said it was because Dimension didn't understand the film, had already made a profit from foreign pre- sales, and didn't see any reason for a wide US release. I was going through various articles when I came across one on . The plot, whilst not the same, is uncannily similar. Peston and Logan are both the cream of law enforcement who, when their own law turns against them, decide to rebel and succeed in their mission. This movie is actually more like . Dessydes. I disagree with you. I've never seen Logan's Run, but reading the article, I can't see what's so similar between the two. While Preston is indeed the best of the law enforcement forces, the law hardly . I don't think there's a real need to mention Logan's Run in this article. Do you recall the bit when Brandt humiliates Preston in the public square? Also, watch Logan's Run, and you'll see what I'm talking about. The Plot is different, yet the story structure is very similar. Both are repressive socities, the main diffrence is that one is oppressing emotions, and the other believes it necessary to euthanise people who are still young, but no longer at their prime. Dessydes. By the time Preston had been humiliated, he was already well on his way to rebelling against the current regime. My point was that it wasn't the regime per se that turned against Preston - it was his missing of an interval. Also, it should be pointed out that repressive regimes that remove an arbitrary component of society are rather typical of dystopian literature. My basic point was that this story has been done so many times before. I think we might actually be in agreement Dessydes. No argument here. Streamless 1. 5: 2. February 2. 00. 6 (UTC)Equilibrium's inspirations. The video game series ? Or are they similarities in future societies design what caused the makers of these two titles to so closely resemble each other? Interesting. The uniforms of the player's agents in Syndicate (or its sequel, Syndicate Wars, I can't remember which) closely resemble the uniform of a Tetragrammaton Cleric in Equilibrium. I think you're onto something here. DVD Commentary Transcript - -Arabani (Talk . Naphra 0. 4: 4. 0, 4 October 2. UTC)Removed tagline. Seano. 1 2. 2: 5. May 2. 00. 6 (UTC)Title issue. Equilibrium was released as Equilibrium in Europe, too. Pascal. Equilibrium is titled Cubic in Scandinavian countries. I have edited the article to reflect this. I've also never noticed it anywhere in Norway under the name . Hence, I'm rephrasing the bit about it going by that name in Scandinavia. I will be reverting your edit since the film was originally released in Scandinavia as Cubic no matter what you might find being sold there now. I would consider it worth mentioning that it actually looks almost identical to the . A little sidenote: Austrofacism is often described as an example of clerical fascism, trying to strengthen the position of the Roman Catholic church in Austrian politics - while a long term goal of National Socialism was to replace Christian tradition by Nazi mysticism. This is an interesting fact because some aspects of Libria's political system do resemble clerical fascism. The Cross Potent (), mentioned as being similar to the Tetragramaton symbol, is the same symbol as seen on that Patriotic Front flag. While the flags have similar symbols, the flags themselves are not very similar. The resemblance to a swastika my have been a miss understanding between the designers off the flag and the director. The resemblance to a Cross Potent is almost certainly a quincedence. Seano. 1 2. 0: 3. September 2. 00. 6 (UTC)WA 2. Wikipedia itself says: . This is unsourced information though so I haven't readded it to the article. Pasi 1. 9: 2. 3, 1. September 2. 00. 6 (UTC)Scrap that. Pasi 1. 9: 2. 7, 1. September 2. 00. 6 (UTC)Original research? It appears that, unlike the other states, the Tetragrammaton Council teaches an un- falsified (but incomplete) version of history, explaining the corrupt societies of the early twenty- first century and the Third World War, in order to explain why they have created the Librian civilization. This fact adds to the assumption that Librian society is relatively new, as the government is still obliged to justify its creation to its citizens.
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