12 Most Effective Musical Moments In Film

With its intriguing ideas, fantastic cast and a new fighting style, this Kurt Wimmer vehicle came and went without promotion. However, it has found a cult following in the DVD market.

John Preston (Christian Bale) is a Cleric, a law enforcer in a dystopian future where human emotion has been outlawed and people take drugs to suppress it.

One day, Preston accidentally misses his dose. Something compels him to go back to the apartment of a so-called sense offender he recently arrested, an apartment full of forbidden items like snow globes.

Preston finds some old records and puts one on. It just so happens to be Beethoven's fierce Symphony No. 9.

The way Wimmer films this scene does not only show the power of music for someone newly awakened like Preston, but also the power of music in general.

Preston is not just discovering music for presumably the first time. He is feeling it with his whole being, dormant emotions tearing through dogmatic beliefs, the fire within changing course as abruptly as it had begun.

This is the scene where Preston discovers himself as a human being and the one that forms the crux of Equilibrium. We are who we are because of what we feel. Without emotions, life is the longest hour dragging to its end.