Totalitarian Society Exposed In The Film (Equilibrium)

Since the beginning of time when humanity was born, war had broken out in our country numerous of times. For instance, “when Germany invade[d] Poland” World War II began in 1939 (“Wars of American Timeline,” 2017). Not to mention, the previous wars that contributed to America’s mass destructions as well. Regarding this, in 2002 a movie named Equilibrium was released. A brief description of this film was about “[A] fascist future where all forms of feeling are illegal, [the top ranked government agent] in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system” (“IMDb,” 1990-2017). The problem in the film was with humanity and how mankind was never going to survive because of breakouts of war, murder, crimes, and humans able to feel emotions. This problem was solved by “Libria” in creating a new law. A quote …show more content…
One form of government that strongly supported the film was a totalitarian regime, which means “a form of government that controls all aspects of the political, social, and economic life of a nation” (Bardes, Shelly, & Schmidt, 2015-2016, p. 7). The fear that government played in this film was militant. The physical aspects of life in Libria was that it had no color (black and white), it had a militant atmosphere, “his” people had to live identical lives, and the society captured imprisonment. The emotional aspects of Libria was that it was emotionless. The people would think, but not know what the meaning felt. These were strict rules that each and every individual of that society had to live by. However, if one was to skip a dose and begin to feel. Then, that individual would have violated the law and be shot on sight. This militant ruler could be portrayed as Hitler because what he tried to stop was war and murder. However, DuPont was actually implementing everything that he was going against. Just like Hitler, DuPont was a hypocrite who contradicted what he stood