Why?

[junilee26]

In the movie equilibrium.
In the ending the person who was in control of the batman aka. dupont... I think he had feelings! and it clearly showed it when batman had entered the room where his "partner" and dupont was. After watching the movie.. this question had been wondering around in my mind. If the dupont had feelings..
Why didnt he allow his society to have feelings?

I think that he didn't want the society to have feelings so that he have the full control of the society. However... I still don't get it..haha What do you guys think??

[elisalee]

I think DuPont started not taking medicines and secretly killed father to have the full power of the society. I am also not sure about this but this is what I think. Emotions can be considered as a beautiful thing, but also can make conflicts.

[sorn]

I think it was because he doesn't have war to happened and he doesn't want different people to be jealous about each other. I have to admit that human emotions mostly comes from jealously. When people want to be better than other people which would often cause conflict and lead to big serious problems such as war. But I'm not sure about the movie, this is just my opinion.

[KevinW]

I believe DuPont was simply deceiving the public so that he could control them. I think this is a metaphor by the director of the movie; many dictators are hypocrites in that they say they will do one thing for their people but go back on their words for something else entirely.

DuPont was Father. He was a dictator. It was never made explicit who or what killed Father (probably that assassination attempt) but DuPont had the strings behind that puppet now.

[sergeyfen]

I think he just thought that emotions are for weak people but he never realized that he is one of people who have emotions, also i think he knew that without emotions he wont be better than the others and think better. So he decided to be one of those people with emotions that manipulate others.

[nadiraamalina]

He's the Father, which is like the supreme dictator of Libria. He can do whatever he wants without the people objecting to it, and I think that he decided that the best course of action was to not take the emotion suppressing drug. Maybe he thought that he could control his anger (which he didn't) and get the other benefits of having emotions. He could also manipulate the resistance if he showed them that he was capable of feeling emotion.

And I do think that the original Father died of natural causes, even though he looked rather young.

[jungholee]

For keep the society and order to the citizen. If people don't have any emotion, it's very good to control. So the guy can keep his power easily, and people will follow well like slaves. So he could keep the society and keep his power for his own benefit.

[munisa]

ooooh good question~ I guess its because he is like the head of the country he can do whatever he wants to because he's like at the top, and the people below him cannot do anything about him. Also I think that its good to have the leader having emotions because he can make wise decisions for the people, if he didnt have emotions then maybe he would do things that a robot would do.

[agneslianaputri99]

But if the leader have emotions, he should see that the society is a mess and would try to make other choices than giving them medicine and make them feel emotionless

[linnie]

I think he had emotion as well, because he was freaked out when John Preston tried to kill him. He said he had "Feeling". We don't know if this is true, but we could infer that he had feeling because he felt "Afraid" or "Scared" of his death.

I think he had emotion because if he had emotion, he could rule the country better. It's like Handicapped General in the Harrison Bergeron. Handicapped General didn't wear any handicaps so he could control the city or society. Same here, Dupont wanted to control the country better, I believe. With emotion, he could do many things as well that helped to dictate the country. We could see that most of people were brainwashed that they didn't have emotion and thought it was wrong to have emotion.

[woori]

Hello

[sazad100]

the father aka the bad guy had emotions which meant that he had the freedom to think, so he could be superior to the people. It is like Harrison Bergeron, the government other people wear handicaps instead of herself.

[agneslianaputri99]

well he's the one who controls the people so its obvious that he had feelings right? hehe if he had no feelings then....he only can think but in a limited way..

[mirim002]

Well when i think about it...it is true that father had feelings. Im not really sure about this but...yeah just like what juni said about the father wanted full power all to himself, i think thats what he is trying to do...just get something ONLY for himself...

[esther]

I think that the leader didn't allow his citizens to not feel because he wanted total control over the society, which has no point. I believe that if you do not feel, then there is no point of living. So basically, I think the leader is doing all these stuff for nothing, because he just ends up dying.