Early this morning, I watched the movie EQUILIBRIUM with my brother. I saw it posted in the malls when it was show, but I did not dare go and have a nice look at it in the movies because I thought it was just another action action movie, which happened to have a cast that I happen to like, Taye Diggs, Christian Bale, and Sean Bean. Cool cast. But I decided against it because, again, I thought it was just some action movie with a storyline that will just bore me in the end.
BUT NO! Hell, no! I was wrong all along. When I watched the movie earlier this morning, it was a movie of substance. Although it was not an academy-award winning movie, it does well with the script and the actors, the concept, and, okay, the stunts. It opens up the topic of human emotion. In the movie, the state tries to eliminate human emotion as the rootcause of all suffering, of war. So, the best way to deal with it is to ELIMINATE it...SUPRESS it with a drug the people must take regularly. In case of lapse, they must go to EQUILIBRIUM to put back the medication on track.
But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. I assume you dream, Preston.
-Partridge (quoting Yeats)
Anyways, I am not going to divulge the whole story of the movie here because it would be unfair to the movie and to you. It wouldn't be that exciting to watch if I'd tell you about it here because I'm not much of a good storyteller, and it's better if you go watch it yourself and FEEL and THINK about what the movie has got to show you.
Indeed, feelings are very strong. It indeed brings us rage, wrath, jealousy, and all other unpleasant things one could do, but isn't it also as beautiful as care, joy, happiness, and love? It is a very costly fruit of life...and I am gladly paying for it, no matter what the cost.
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