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22 December 2023
Freaks, as you all know, sometimes movies are just poor rip-offs of other ideas. Sometimes a movie takes inspiration from various sources, tweaks it, and improves upon it. This month\'s movie is the sci-fi flick Equilibrium, which takes its main themes from some of my favorite books, and finds a new way to tell a classic story.
It\'s the future, and, after World War III, society has finally rebuilt itself. To avoid another world war, all citizens are required to take intervals of a mood control drug. Sentimental, sensual, and artistic objects are outlawed, and people who don\'t take the mood drugs or possess banned materials are destroyed. It all sounds pretty familiar right? Does 1984, Fahrenheit 451, or Brave New World ring any bells?
It\'s about a man\'s search for what is right; when he finally chooses to ask questions of the government, instead of doing what he\'s told. Still sound familiar?
What if you added a group of enforcers who use an all-new form of martial arts called Gun-kata? They know where to stand in the middle of a room so that all bullets miss them, and they always hit their targets. Guns are used as an extension of the fighter\'s arms. Sword fights between Christian Bale (American Psycho) and Taye Diggs (Way of the Gun). And the spectacular Emily Watson (Punch Drunk Love) doing her best Joan of Arc impression.
The action sequences in this film will blow you away. Director Kurt Wimmer took a shoestring budget, and made a grand movie in the vein of Gattaca and Minority Report, but with something extra: a sense of history.
Equilibrium was only in limited release when it came out late last year, so very few people actually got the chance to see it. Now released on DVD and video, you now have the chance to see the first cult movie of the 21st Century.
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It\'s the future, and, after World War III, society has finally rebuilt itself. To avoid another world war, all citizens are required to take intervals of a mood control drug. Sentimental, sensual, and artistic objects are outlawed, and people who don\'t take the mood drugs or possess banned materials are destroyed. It all sounds pretty familiar right? Does 1984, Fahrenheit 451, or Brave New World ring any bells?
It\'s about a man\'s search for what is right; when he finally chooses to ask questions of the government, instead of doing what he\'s told. Still sound familiar?
What if you added a group of enforcers who use an all-new form of martial arts called Gun-kata? They know where to stand in the middle of a room so that all bullets miss them, and they always hit their targets. Guns are used as an extension of the fighter\'s arms. Sword fights between Christian Bale (American Psycho) and Taye Diggs (Way of the Gun). And the spectacular Emily Watson (Punch Drunk Love) doing her best Joan of Arc impression.
The action sequences in this film will blow you away. Director Kurt Wimmer took a shoestring budget, and made a grand movie in the vein of Gattaca and Minority Report, but with something extra: a sense of history.
Equilibrium was only in limited release when it came out late last year, so very few people actually got the chance to see it. Now released on DVD and video, you now have the chance to see the first cult movie of the 21st Century.
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artid
1405
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issue
vol 5 - issue 10 (jun 2003)
section
entertainmental