claudg1950
Joined Nov 2005
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Since thinking bad about the Big Brother and burning books were already done, the makers here came out with the idea that feeling should be outlawed. So, the totalitarian fascist police state first created a mandatory feeling-suppressing drug and then proceed to kill everyone who still feels.
The idea is stupid because developed societies (such as the one depicted here) as they are today don't make enough babies to maintain a stable population. Imagine if we removed sexual desire: such society will end like the Shakers: they regarded sex as sinful, so they made themselves disappear.
The film is technically well made, but it doesn't resist analyses. The impressive and deliriously impossible gunfights make Matrix's seem reasonable by comparison.
Watching people being massacred by a single guy who is immune to bullets can entertain viewers only so far, provided they are addicted to scenes which are both gruesome and unrealistic.
Equilibrium is clearly about 30 minutes too long, so makers filled those minutes with unnecessary details.
The movie takes itself too seriously, as if it were sensible and logical. As a result, it comes across as somber and depressing. No humor, no redeeming moments.
The requisite final victory of the hero could only have taken place if the bad guys were colossally stupid. Dictators rarely are. The ending is disappointing in that sense. Too easy.
The idea is stupid because developed societies (such as the one depicted here) as they are today don't make enough babies to maintain a stable population. Imagine if we removed sexual desire: such society will end like the Shakers: they regarded sex as sinful, so they made themselves disappear.
The film is technically well made, but it doesn't resist analyses. The impressive and deliriously impossible gunfights make Matrix's seem reasonable by comparison.
Watching people being massacred by a single guy who is immune to bullets can entertain viewers only so far, provided they are addicted to scenes which are both gruesome and unrealistic.
Equilibrium is clearly about 30 minutes too long, so makers filled those minutes with unnecessary details.
The movie takes itself too seriously, as if it were sensible and logical. As a result, it comes across as somber and depressing. No humor, no redeeming moments.
The requisite final victory of the hero could only have taken place if the bad guys were colossally stupid. Dictators rarely are. The ending is disappointing in that sense. Too easy.
