Analysis Of Equilibri

It’s a lot easier not to feel, I think most people would agree with that. When people separate themselves from the emotional side of life, things like guilt and pride no longer become issues that they have to deal with. For example, a common psychological test given involves a trolley rolling towards a group of five people, with a track that switches off to a crowd of two people. Most of the population would pull the lever to change the track, sparing the lives of the five people simply because of the quantity. The other part of this test removes the second track and the lever; instead, a man of considerable size is now standing on the platform next to the rails. His heft will halt the trolley, however you must be the one to push him. At this point, most people relax the responsibility of taking the man’s life, and refuse to push him. Unsurprisingly, both sociopaths and psychopaths tend to say that they’d …show more content…
How nice would it be if we didn’t have to worry about war, because nobody would need to fight over anything anymore. What about being able to make hard decisions like denying a homeless man money without feeling even a tinge of guilt? The film Equilibrium seeks to present a world such as this, to a terrifying extent. Inside of the movie’s universe, there are officers elected by the government to kill and detain anyone not complying with the rules of that society. There is a special medicine given out to every citizen, it deactivates emotions completely, making those officers ruthless killing machines who will not hesitate to put down any living thing that does not comply. It’s shockingly accurate though. Imagine if police officers would never have to feel at fault when they were forced to shoot a criminal. The other side of this coin is a much more bleak