Join Alex as he takes a solo look at the post-war fascist future of no emotions in Equilibrium (2002), Kurt Wimmer’s 1984-esque future where a city-state has outlawed emotions. The film stars an up-and-coming Christian Bale, Taye Diggs, Sean Bean (blink-and-you’ll-miss-it), with Emily Watson and Angus MacFadyen. After World War III, fascists thought war and crime were emotions’ fault, so they developed a drug that suppresses emotional extremes, and if you don’t take it everyday, read books, or participate in culture, well… Clerics come and act as judge, jury, and sometimes executioner! What do theories of emotion have to say about the portrayal of emotion in this film, and is its take accurate from psychological perspective?…