(NOTE: This post contains spoilers)
When I first watched Equilibrium, featuring Christian Bale, I thought it was a good movie but I didn’t necessarily realise how significant the main theme is.
This was probably ten years ago at this point, and back then I was re-watching many sci-fi favourites like Gattaca and Minority Report to name just a few. A friend recommended that I watch Equilibrium because it fell nicely into my genre of interest. I loved the movie, and as a side note, the scene where Cleric John Preston first hears Beethoven’s 9th Symphony got me into Beethoven and classical music.
So, I really liked the movie but my first reaction was: We’ll never live in a totalitarian state that suppresses emotion.
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