In a world where rights are a thing of the past and feelings are illegal, a role model member of society, John Preston (Christian Bale) comes to realize the horror of his society and decides he is the one who has to take down the system.
This is an exemplary trailer because it clearly shows the premise, protagonist's change and the faults of the society they live in. The premise is clearly shown through the use of cleverly picked dialogue and visible text that appears every few seconds to help the viewer understand their society. The director also chooses very emotional and high-impact scenes and clips that help the viewer understand the premise. The protagonists change is clearly seen as they show his wife being taken and his reaction. All clips after this, show his new goal to overthrow the system. The faults of the society can also be clearly seen in this trailer. In the text they describe the lack of rights and the over-controlling government. The use of force and armed guards is also evident and show one way they control the population.
The director was clever with choosing his clips and setting the tone so we should use this as a way of coming up with ideas for our trailer. I feel that we should use a similar style of text that appears along with some dramatic music. Also like this trailer we should show the development of the protagonist in a clear way. For example we could show him going along with the system until he sees what is wrong. This along with many aspects of the Equilibrium trailer will help us with creating our own dystopian trailer.
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