The doomsday that can be torn apart

Austyn 2022-04-20 09:01:12

2002's [Tear Doom], if it wasn't for Christian Bale, I don't think many people would have watched it.
It's easy to find a similar movie - [V for Vendetta], the same storyline, in the near future, a tyranny rules a society imprisoned by human nature, a person's awakening, defeating those rulers, liberating all mankind .
The title of the film is Equilibrium, which means to be calm (box shoes?), where the rulers block any emotion, people are required to inject drugs every day, control their emotions, anything that might make people's mood swings is destroyed, and those who disobey are killed. Suppressed, cremated, all forced obedience.
John Preston is the watchdog of the ruler and the strongest executioner (called cleric in the film: cleric), and his thoughts are overturning and rising in the continuous execution of official duties.
The 2002 work, in terms of style, is obviously a scaled-down version of The Matrix, with tight-fitting black clothes, oriental fighting, and a deadpan protagonist.
John's colleague kept a copy of Yeats's poems privately during the operation. At last, John confronted him with a gun. Before bringing his colleague to justice on the spot, he said "I'm sorry". His colleague looked at him and shook his head: "No, you won't, because you don't know what it means to be sorry". In that era, without emotion, how to know how to be sorry was just a dialogue routine, a degenerate word that cannot be understood.
But I been poor, have only my dreams…

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  • Shawna 2022-03-25 09:01:05

    Contrived, silly, preaching

  • Asa 2022-03-24 09:01:19

    It's pretty good-looking, the action version of 1984, which is similar to the Matrix, but the ending is too beautiful, so beautiful that it can only be used to comfort the weak and small minds~~.

Equilibrium quotes

  • DuPont: The gun katas. Through analysis of thousands of recorded gunfights, the Cleric has determined that the geometric distribution of antagonists in any gun battle is a statistically predictable element. The gun kata treats the gun as a total weapon, each fluid position representing a maximum kill zone, inflicting maximum damage on the maximum number of opponents while keeping the defender clear of the statistically traditional trajectories of return fire. By the rote mastery of this art, your firing efficiency will rise by no less than 120%. The difference of a 63% increase to lethal proficiency makes the master of the gun katas an adversary not to be taken lightly.

  • [trying to convince a group of rebels that he's letting them escape]

    John Preston: Go. Go, damn you!

    [sees another rebel being shot and knows this group will be next]

    John Preston: Get out of here, God damn it! If you don't, you're dead!

    Rebel: Don't do it. He'll shoot us in the back.

    John Preston: If I was gonna shoot you, I'd shoot you in the face. Now go.