Interesting. Like the blog. Did you design it yourself? My favorite line at the bottom "professional wrestling obsessed." lol currently checking out categories "roller derby" and "Thomas Paine"
what's the next movie? I missed it...

"The 'oh shit' guys." ha
khalling has already covered some major bases here. She mentioned the HUGE Atlas that was in the movie and we wondered the significance. It's not a mistake that it is in this movie (I don't think). And I want it also. :)
This movie shows, like all previous dictatorist/statist regimes, they find ways to take the 'you' out of you...and once that's accomplished you're just part of the collective blob. Another question to ask..."how did they get to that point?...How did that happen?" One more thing, when you were discussing how far in the future it might have been, because all of the emotion burnings/destructions were of items from the past (or our now current times) but nothing else seemed too futurists.... I think this shows how quickly these types of changes can happen under the right conditions. Are the conditions such in America right now? I feel like I'm surrounded by mindless sheep most of the time already. :( (You guys are a breath of fresh air... I love to watch the thinking going on.) Thanks! :)

Here is a written review I did for people that haven't watched the film but to entice them into watching it.

http://rogermalcolm.wordpress.com/2013/0...

We also had to reschedule this week and I accidentally uploaded Alfredo Garcia again instead of Equilibrium. I was up to 3am fixing it.

Excellent! Sorry you were up til 3am :(

Interesting review. Especially once you guys warmed up! Like the new intro. fav lines "people are waking up" "you have to bring something to the table [when watching the film]." I also agreed with Chris about the lack of impetus in such a society for developing disruptive technologies.
Throughout history, when a nation collapses, it is common to have a totalitarian take-over. Often under the guise of "maintaining order," building out of chaos is as fearful or more perhaps than a war. This is how you get millions of people to agree in the beginning-maintain order.
The symbolism of a Third Reich was strong in the film. s well, there were nods to Atlas Shrugged. A large lighted Atlas and globe was featured I think three times in the movie. Why? (I want that globe though lol)
Maybe it was not malicious-Facts:1. Objectivism does not condone the initiation of force 2. Objectivism respects property rights 3. Objectivism does not advocate the lack of emotion. This third concept is where I think the nudge is towards. It is a widely accepted fallacy that emotion and logic are divorced from one another. You guys had that discussion and concluded correctly. As Rand said in the Playboy Interview:
"An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man’s value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man’s reason and his emotions—provided he observes their proper relationship ..."