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Isn't anger an emotion?

posted 10 years ago by johnnyv1315
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When DuPont slammed his fist on the table and yelled at Preston, he showed anger, an emotion, a feeling,
which supposedly was banned.

[–] ReelRocknRolla 10 years ago

DuPont felt. He tells Preston right before he gets killed.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

The illogical part is _NOT_ that they FELT. The illogical part comes from them so openly DISPLAYING their emotions, without any thought of getting caught.

[–] Ace_Spade (9479) 4 years ago

I've got to agree with this. The movie doesn't need to explain to me that it's "one law for the rulers and one for the ruled"; that's all over the place in real life. But some of the people gaming the system in Equilibrium are really, really bad at hiding it. They almost flaunt it. When the twist comes, you know why they displayed emotions earlier, but you still don't know why they aren't being reported.

[–] MtnMan13 10 years ago

I assumed DuPont was a hypocrite and deprived the populace of emotions in order to make them easier to control.

[–] TheCommenteer 9 years ago

The writing was a bit off in the whole movie. Almost all characters showed some emotion at some point. Then again a lot of them were shown to be off the dose so the big con may have been that nobody was actually taking it. Everyone was feeling.

[–] radarking 8 years ago

It's simple: the ruling elite don't follow the rules that they enforce upon the common man.

"It seems we are not all in agreement."
"I disagree!"

[–] Mitchcraft 8 years ago

Not just this but Brendt was constantly smug and showing signs of joy and constantly smiling when he was showing he was on to Bale. To me this just completely made no sense. A guy who is hell bent on proving bale has emotion is constantly showing emotion him self by being a smug git all the way through the film.

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"It's game over man, it's game over!!!"

[–] vicky_lc2001 (1907) 7 years ago

I agree such smugness is an extreme type of emotion, also jealousy, pride, and envy which he exhibited through various points in the film.