Gah gah gah.
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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.)
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Date: 2003-08-31 09:58 am (UTC)Carry on.
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Date: 2003-08-31 10:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-31 10:45 am (UTC)Watching a face slide to the ground? Brilliance.
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Date: 2003-08-31 10:57 am (UTC)ENEMY: Do your worst!
GURKHA: *swings sword*
ENEMY: Ha! You missed!
GURKHA: No I didn't. Nod your head.
ENEMY: Plop. Thump.
Oh, yeah, there's an amazing number of things in the movie that couldn't happen, but I'll give them this much: they didn't try to explain. Not in the kind of detail that causes me to want to rip out my eyes and scream while watching, say, Matrix Reloaded, or *shudder* Phantom Menace. It's basically 'hi, we're a dystopia, shut up and watch the movie, kthxbye', and I can appreciate that.
Another creepy element: with his hair and eyebrows dyed like that and the hairstyle he had to wear, Christian Bale looked eerily like my karate instructor.