Gah gah gah.
Aug. 31st, 2003 01:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynJust saw Equilibrium. As a longtime fan of dystopias, I enjoyed it. As someone who wanted to see the famous gunkata, I enjoyed it. As a great fan of the technique where one creates cognitive disturbance by playing eerily peaceful music over scenes of visually disquieting violence or other unwholesomeness, I enjoyed it.
As someone who is currently carrying around Sergeant Preston of the Yukon in my head it was like finding out 'your great-grandson GREW UP TO BE STALIN!'. Because the main character, the Thought Policeman, the Grammaton Cleric, whatever? Is named John Preston. Don't even get me STARTED about the dog.
I am going to treat the movie as if it were an extended-length dystopian nightmare of 'possible futures should what we do in 1936 go wrong', because it was too damn cool for me not to want to buy it and have a copy of my very own, but really, it's like findin' out your family line was good for two or three generations and then inadvertently spawned Josef Stalin.
(Although I gotta say - Taye Diggs - mmm-MMH.)
As someone who is currently carrying around Sergeant Preston of the Yukon in my head it was like finding out 'your great-grandson GREW UP TO BE STALIN!'. Because the main character, the Thought Policeman, the Grammaton Cleric, whatever? Is named John Preston. Don't even get me STARTED about the dog.
I am going to treat the movie as if it were an extended-length dystopian nightmare of 'possible futures should what we do in 1936 go wrong', because it was too damn cool for me not to want to buy it and have a copy of my very own, but really, it's like findin' out your family line was good for two or three generations and then inadvertently spawned Josef Stalin.
(Although I gotta say - Taye Diggs - mmm-MMH.)
