Equilibrium (2002 movie)
Equilibrium is an action-filled science-fiction film set in the future. Similarities to classic dystopian novels such as Nineteen Eighty-Four, Fahrenheit 451, and Brave New World are evident.
Story
Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.
The movie is set in 2072, where mankind has survived a nuclear war and has been to the brink of extinction.
Knowing that the next war would annihiliate them, the survivors decided that emotions were the cause of man's "inhumanity to man", and have decided to make them illegal. In the fictional city Libria, everyone has to take doses of the (fictitious) drug prozium, which prevents men from being sad or angry. The drug also removes emotions like love and hapiness, but the powers-that-be find that it is a small price to pay to have peace.
However, a group of rebels feeling that without emotions man is nothing, refuse to take their daily dosage of prozium and have moved out of Libria. These "emotional deviants" are hunted down and killed by the Clerics, Libria's ninja-like secret police.
Cast & Crew
Gun Kata
Gun Kata is a fictitious gun-fighting martial arts discipline that features as part of the movie.
Gun Kata is based upon the premise that the positions and actions of antagonists can be predicted to a high degree of accuracy in any given combat situation.
