Retro Nostalgia: Equilibrium (2002) and the Paradox of Emotion
If you blinked back in 2002, you might have missed this lesser known Christian Bale vehicle featuring stylish gun kata and deliberate and sometimes excessive homages to George Orwell’s 1984 (particularly the 1984 adaptation starring John Hurt). Indeed, one could describe Kurt Wimmer’s Equilibrium as Orwell on drugs. Here, Orwellian propaganda is apparent in the […]