I thought the story was quite thought provoking and well represented by
the screenplay.
To me it was irrelevant where the script writers sought their
inspiration for the tale, anymore than I fault the Wachowski brothers
for splicing together a hodge podge of readily available philosophy to
form the basis for their story.
The actor's transition through unemotional slave of the order to finally
recognising and embracing his emotions was beautiful to watch.
Christian Bale gives one of the best performances of his career.
The gun katas were unique to Equilibrium, thus giving the action
sequences that touch of originality which I hadn't seen since Matrix.
All in all I found Equilibrium to be a wonderful story, with a lot of
action, but with a mind as well. I highly recommend it to any
sci-fi/action movie aficionado, and especially to those that want to see
a strong 'moral'/message woven into an entertaining storyline.
It was good filmmaking.
-Gel
-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 10:48 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: Just saw Donnie Darko...
Equilibrium was horrible. It was just a cliffs notes scraping of a dozen
literary sources to come up with something that was extremely thin and
superficial. The only moderately original thing that was interesting was
the
gun-kata, but while I like Christian Bale, there were times when I
cringed
at the poseur direction he suffered.
-Kevin
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