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Equilibrium, also known as Cubic, is a 2002 American science fiction action film written and directed by Kurt Wimmer. It stars Christian Bale, Emily Watson and Taye Diggs.
The film follows John Preston (Christian Bale), a warrior-priest and enforcement officer in a future dystopia where both feelings and artistic expression are outlawed and citizens take daily injections of drugs to suppress their emotions. After accidentally missing a dose, Preston begins to experience emotions which make him question his own morality and moderate his actions, while attempting to remain undetected by the suspicious society in which he lives. Ultimately he aids a resistance movement using advanced martial arts, which he was taught serving the very regime he is to help overthrow.
Equilibrium is set in the futuristic and dystopian city-state of Libria. After a Third World War devastated the Earth, a totalitarian state emerged whose ideology determined human emotion to be the root cause of conflict. All emotionally stimulating material is banned and "sense offenders" are ruthlessly persecuted. Illegal materials are rated "EC-10" for "emotional content" (a reference to the MPAA film rating system), and destroyed by incineration. All citizens of Libria are required to take regular injections of the emotion-suppressing drug Prozium.
These are the days when we celebrate host and parasites
Bold are the words of the cold unfeeling neophyte
I live in a sick world without balance or sense of reality
In a fractured moment we are torn into the fragments
Of a sick world without equilibrium
I can't erase the past, I can't erase today
Please take it all away
I can't believe there's nothing more to this senseless world
Please take it all away
Why do we live within these season of wither?
Why does the hopelessness take control?
In a fractured moment we are torn into the fragments
Of a sick world without equilibrium
I can't erase the past, I can't erase today
Please take it all away
I can't believe there's nothing more to this senseless world
Please take it all away
Slowly fading we lose control
Slowly decaying, losing all
I can't erase the past, I can't erase today
Please take it all away
I can't believe there's nothing more to this senseless world