equilibrium film review

Summary

At the end of World War III, the world fell under the control of the leader who calls his self “the Father” and the Tetragrammaton: a government that outlaws all forms of arts, music, books, luxury and feelings—emotion. Citizens are forced to take drugs (prozium—a mind-altering drug that hinders emotion).However, "Sense Offenders": citizens who resist the laws and operate underground are continually at war with the Tetragrammaton. Cleric John Preston, an elite super-soldier whose mission is to hunt down and eliminate Sense Offenders with the help of a ruthless police force. One day, Preston accidentally breaks his morning dose of emotion suppressant drug and begins to feel. Soon, he begins sympathizing with the Sense Offenders and begins to understand the beauty of feeling... A beauty that the government, in which Preston spent his life serving, would like to see destroyed.

Reaction

I first watched this movie when I was still in high school, I can still remember what I first thought of it….I thought it was cool—being unable to feel anything and also because I think it would be better to not feel anger, sadness, pain and etc. in that way there wont be any misunderstanding between man its kind—there would be peace. But, now that I am mature enough to think of what the world might be without these feelings…uh! What a dull world we have: boring, without any tint of color, like a child will just die and his parents won’t even show any sadness or grief. This movie had me think of some of the human desires. The sense offenders wanted to set their emotions free, they wanted the world to see it—the beauty, but the government of Libria prohibits the showing of emotion because, for what I guess they have been afraid since the world war three struck the world, I think they also did it to save the human race from being extinct since there have been man versus man war for such a long time. I like the idea of being able to control the emotion of human being but never to suppress it using drugs and treat it as a deadly sickness. I hate it when I remember the scenes where the enforcers shot numbers of dogs; I can’t just sit and watch it like I don’t care. Without emotion people will be just like those dogs and the enforcers: killing each other mercilessly.

Physiology and psychology emotion

I like the words that many people use defining emotion: “emotion is the spice of life; it is an essential ingredient of life” well, it really does mean it. Ask yourself then, if you don’t believe it. Emotion is one of the important aspects of our behavior. It makes life more interesting, it colors your day. It differentiates today from yesterday.
Our body naturally reacts to our emotion. Or we can say that we call it emotion after interpreting our body’s response to a specific stimulus or situation. For example: you see an ugly dog staring at you and its teeth are gritting and it is definitely salivating and ready to jump after you. Your heart rate increased followed by your blood pressure and your hands and feet feel cold and you are sweating. With these physiological responds of your body your mind then interprets it ands then it gives you the conclusion that what you are experiencing is fear. I believe this is how the body and the mind interacts that results in emotion.
Emotion is hard to understand, hard to be studied. An emotion depends on how a person thinks, the age of the mind, maturity and also the environment where he grew. These factors affect emotions , that is why we can’t judge a person unless we know a lot about him.