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.
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