The 89th Academy Awards telecast airs at 8:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. PST, Sunday, Feb. 26, on ABC, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. Join us for the first IMDb LIVE Viewing Party, a companion show that includes celebrity insight, real-time IMDb data, and more.
Related lists from IMDb users
Title: Equals (2015)
Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Nicholas Hoult | ... | ||
| Vernetta Lopez | ... |
Woman at Turnstile
|
|
| Scott Lawrence | ... |
Mark
|
|
| Kate Lyn Sheil | ... |
Kate
|
|
| Kristen Stewart | ... | ||
| Rebecca Hazlewood | ... |
Zoe
|
|
|
|
Yu Hwan Park | ... |
Seth
|
| Bel Powley | ... |
Rachel
|
|
| David Selby | ... |
Leonard
|
|
| Aurora Perrineau | ... |
Iris
|
|
|
|
Nathan Parker | ... |
David
|
| Jessica Lois | ... |
Coupler Woman
|
|
| Seth Adams | ... |
Health and Safety Guard #1
|
|
|
|
Dennis Shin | ... |
Health and Safety Guard #2
|
| Guy Pearce | ... |
Jonas
|
|
A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated. Written by Nathan Parker
Equals is set in a futuristic world where, inexplicably, people have decided to "do away with emotions." Of course this phrase never has any real meaning, since any kind of inclination to do anything can be counted as an emotion. So really it's a sci-fi setting to explore the practice of the suppression of emotions. A problem which has never existed.
OK, before I trash the movie too much: the acting is fine, the set design and look are very good, and the world-building is excellent. But what is the story here? Two people who aren't supposed to fall in love do so anyway. Call me a cynic but I need more than that.
Compare and contrast Equals with The Lobster, another sci- fi/dystopian movie about suppressing emotions. Rather, The Lobster compares the societal demand that people form couples, regardless of how dysfunctional they are, against an underground movement of people who insist that being single should not be cause for rejection by society (though the rebels go too far the other way, adopting the "no emotional connections" attitude that fits with Equals). Somehow The Lobster manages to fit an interesting and funny story into the world. Equals? It gives us practically nothing.
Perhaps this is just a distillation of the concept of Forbidden Love. I really expected more.