silly premise

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scribe_ninja — 11 years ago(July 25, 2014 05:43 AM)

Oh dear, the drug does not wipe out all emotions, it just suppresses them, there is a difference.
Stop taking what I write personally and chill out!

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Flabulous — 13 years ago(November 07, 2012 03:53 AM)

The premise is flawed by neuroscientific findings from 1998, that there are 7 basic emotions in all mammals - 'seeking' being one of them. And there is plenty of that in this film.

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cosmic_surveyor — 13 years ago(November 13, 2012 12:12 AM)

It's not about having no emotions!
It's about having a tamer emotional response. Prozium in the film moderates the responses so they don't get too high or too low.
An example would be the Star Wars Jedi warriors. The Masters easily control their emotional responses. The apprentices are learning. The warriors are somewhere in between. Meanwhile, the talented Anakin Skywalker could not when it mattered most. Note the Darth Lords also temper their emotional responses well.
Someone brought up the Star Trek Vulcans. By training and cultivation, they too have tamed their emotional responses.
In reality, science has demonstrated that practicing certain meditation techniques tempers emotional responses.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121112150339.htm
A decade ago, the artists might not have known what is possible and could only portray what they thought was possible. In the "making of", they could only see the two extremes, zombies or raging lunatics. They saw the middle as a failure of portrayal and hoped the audience was forgiving.
In effect, they had a premise they couldn't wrap their heads around.
So, it's not a silly premise to have Darth Lords, Jedi Masters or Vulcans ruling a civilization.

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beti1948 — 12 years ago(June 16, 2013 03:39 PM)

It is about having no emotions. Dupont says in the beginning that the clerics' "sole task it is to seek out and eradicate the true source of man's inhumanity to man - his ability to feel."

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the_la_baker — 12 years ago(May 05, 2013 05:00 PM)

I'm glad you realized that too. Nothing in this movie makes any sense.
Pure garbage(except Sean Bean, he was good for all of 5 minutes).

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checkerouterofthings — 12 years ago(June 12, 2013 08:20 PM)

The clumsy "no emotions allowed" premise aside, it was the horridly unintelligent plot that made the movie fail for me. Better writing would have at least made it semi-passable.

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pbento68 — 12 years ago(August 16, 2013 10:53 PM)

I don't care what you call it, Dodging bullets is dodging bullets and it is not up for debate if humans have the capacity to react that quickly. Much less calculate mathematically the likely trajectory of a bullet. Embarrassingly stupid.

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vocklabruck — 12 years ago(November 16, 2013 06:25 AM)

In fact, how can Brandt "feel" there is something wrong with Preston if he is supposed not to have emotions? Pride is also an emotion, the guy giving a speech to hundreds of people is full of emotions, etc. The entire film is just an entire contradiction. It's not too bad anyway, nice visual achievement.

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ilawefvcjr — 10 years ago(February 23, 2016 01:31 AM)

I agree, at the begining we see Bale shooting the crap out of the resistance. He shoots his friend..Bean, and then all of a sudden within 24 hours he starts to change. Not good. As you say if you have no emotion why are they looking for a career advancement.

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triplegrim — 9 years ago(December 15, 2016 07:19 AM)

They do have emotions. The drug only limits them. This is explained in the opening narrative. If you paid attention, you would not have misunderstood the premise of the movie.