Movie Review: Equilibrium 1

Movie Review: Equilibrium The movie Equilibrium is an excellent movie to relate to our Introduction to Sociology class. Equilibrium follows the life of John Preston, an elite member of a military team used to locate and destroy all things considered “sensory stimulating”. In this society all citizens are forced to take drugs that suppress all feeling and emotion. The reason for this is the leader “father” of this society believes emotion is the cause of all conflicts such as crime and war. Anyone not taking the drug is considered a “sense offender” and is killed on the spot. John Preston is a firm believer in his government and its cause, until he misses a dose of his drugs. After realizing how wonderful emotion can be, he seeks out the “Underground”, a large hidden society of “sense offenders”, and eventually becomes the one to lead the revolution against the government. I think that this movie is a great example to relate to our Introduction to Sociology class because it incorporates key ideas such as culture, society, norms, deviance, and group conformity. The first idea used in this movie relating to sociology is society. Society is defined in the dictionary as a structured community of people bound together by similar traditions, institutions, or nationality (source 1). The society in Equilibrium is known as Libria. The people of this society share this territory government and are all know as Librian’s. These common factors in Librian’s show that they are all sharing a society.
Movie Review: Equilibrium 2

Another thing shared by Librian’s is culture. Culture is when “people with shared beliefs and practices: a group of people whose shared beliefs and practices identify the particular place, class, or time to which they belong”(source1) The Librians believe that they are preventing violence by