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He tells Preston at the end that he "feels," and that's true. It's just that he "feels" only as a psychopath can feel. And, since he was setting Preston up from the very beginning, he also probably knew exactly what book Partridge had been reading when Preston shot him. And he used that phrase right before his fight with Preston, why? Perhaps to attempt to throw him off his game by reminding him that he had killed his partner something that he guessed - correctly - about which Preston felt incredible sadness and guilt.

Question : The speeches that "Father" gives are emotional, in that they are intended to instill emotion in the listener. I understand that Father and presumably quite a few others of the head council are not taking the Prozium, but is there a reason they are still giving these rousing speeches to the masses that are supposedly devoid of emotion? Am I just missing some of the story? Chosen answer: As I see it, the point of the speeches is not to evoke emotions in the listeners, but rather to show what emotions such as anger and jealousy lead to in the course of human history.

So they use historic "evidence" to justify their actions such as killing sense offenders and to show what emotions can lead to. Question : If there are no emotions, how do they fall in love? Preston shows signs with his wife while on the drug. Answer: I think in Libria marriages only exist to keep the human species going.

There is no "love" per se. It was Viviana Preston who really showed emotion because she was not dosing during the scenes that we see through Preston's memories. I believe Preston attacked the men who burst into their apartment out of a sense of preserving his family unit, nor necessarily out of a sense of loving his wife.

His inaction after he found out she was a sense offender and not returning her kiss before she was dragged off him and the fact that he coldly attended her incineration without a single emotion visible on his face show that he probably didn't feel grief at the time at all.

On the other hand, Preston WAS set up because "Father" was looking for a man who had "the capacity to feel, without yet knowing it," even with the Proseum and so some minor displays of emotions towards his wife and children would make sense. Question : Libria does have technology and computer abilities.

This is evident with the screens showing Father, the vehicles, and the TV station in a later scene. But when Preston was asking about the book that he thought Partridge had archived, the man behind the desk has a gigantic book to have to flip through to find it.

If they do have and use technology, why would they use a book for archiving items like that when a computer would make it SO much easier? Quantom X. Question : After Preston kills DuPont, there is no blood or wound on his neck. Only moments later, he goes to destroy the Father broadcasting room, and suddenly there is a cut on his neck with blood on his collar.

Is this a mistake, or is it implied that he fought more and got injured between DuPont's office and the broadcast room? Chosen answer: This is actually addressed in the DVD director's commentary. The wound was caused by a bullet grazing Preston's neck during his gun duel with DuPont. Due to adrenaline and shock however, it didn't begin to bleed until after Preston had killed DuPont and his body began to relax. The relative unlikelihood of this is moot since it is technically possible.

So the scene in the broadcast room takes place immediately after Preston kills DuPont. Interestingly, it was Christian Bale 's idea to add the wound because he thought it would make Preston seem too superhuman if he escaped the previous battles completely unharmed.

Question : If the law enforcers are all taking their drugs, why, in the gun battles, are all of the soldiers ducking down and showing signs of fear? Answer: Feeling actual fear and being trained to not deliberately stand in the line of fire are different things.

The soldiers are acting out of self preservation, not fear. Question : What did Preston do with the dog? We see that he put it back in the car, but he obviously wasn't going to just walk into his apartment with "contraband".

He couldn't just let it go, because the dog wouldn't leave when he tried to before. Answer: At the end of the film, after Preston kills 'Father' and the explosives are detonated, we see Preston's kids. His son is at school and his daughter is playing with the puppy she's letting it lick her hand. I assumed that he'd wrapped it up in his coat he used as a bed for it and simply hurried up the stairs.

Question : When Preston goes into Father's office to face off against Brandt and DuPont, he is surrounded by several guys in gray suits with swords. Just before Preston cuts them down with little effort, the one directly in front of him growls and Preston smirks. Supporting Characters. October 3, 0. September 27, 0. September 23, 0. September 21, 0. September 19, 0. September 13, 0. September 8, 0. Movie Characters. September 5, 0. August 30, 0. August 23, 0.

August 1, 0. July 25, 0. March 21, 0. July 22, 0. May 27, 0. March 26, 0. March 5, 0. January 5, 0. November 26, 0. November 6, 0. Movie Scenes. Ending Scenes. August 15, 0. Car Chases. August 8, 0. Fight Scenes. During the course of the film the violence becomes progressively more graphic. In early scenes it's almost "PG" with no blood visible despite people being riddled with bullets.

As the movie progresses blood starts spilling and by the end single bullets will spill large volumes of blood. This has the effect of increasing the emotional effect of each act of violence from relatively low at the movie's outset to high by the movie's conclusion. It would seem intended that the viewer would grow in emotional sensitivity to the violence just as the main character does.

Writer and director Kurt Wimmer invented the martial arts style of gunfighting for this movie in his backyard. The "kendo"-type swords used during the sparring scene were designed specially for the film and are turned wood which broke quite easily during filming because Christian Bale and Taye Diggs were really whacking each other with them. Originally, the drug Prozium was named Librium hence the term "People of Libria" as often referred to throughout the film.

However, Librium turns out to be a registered trade name for the anti-anxiety drug chlordiazepoxide. The name was quickly changed to Prozium, a sly combination of Prozac and Valium, which both have calming effects.

The puppy used in the movie was a Bernese Mountain dog. The noises it makes barks, whines, yelps etc weren't made by the dog, but by an actor who was specialised in mimicking animals. The film was not given a wide release because it had already run into profit as a result of overseas sales, and Miramax didn't want to risk turning a money maker into a loss. Bale was not available at the time so he considered Dominic Purcell for the role.

Ultimately Bale became available and Purcell was cast as Seamus The Resistance Fighter in the opening of the film instead. Some of the tank-like vehicles seen driving along the streets are, in fact, white-painted airport tugs, the kinds used for pushing very large aircraft such as s. In certain scenes, the muzzle flash of the pistols and rifles fired by the Clerics and guards will reveal the Tetragrammaton insignia. The pistol-whip fight between John Preston and the officers took only 30 minutes to film.

The film takes place in Tetragrammaton translation: "word with four letters" , is actually a word used in Judaism in reference to the name of God. Daniel Radcliffe auditioned for the part of John Preston's son. Although he actually drives a car in several scenes, Taye Diggs didn't know how to drive at the time of filming; most likely due to his New York City background. Two hundred people were interviewed for the role of Partridge and filming had already started when Lucas Foster brought Sean Bean in, having convinced him to take the role.

In the final fight scene, there is a painting on the wall of Dupont's office. According to the commentary, the story had to be changed slightly because the dog had grown too quickly and so they couldn't use it for reshoots.

In several scenes, the same footage of the dog is used several times. The film's fight choreographer Jim Ramos Vickers and Kurt Wimmer had some slight disagreement on how the martial art Gun Kata should be performed on screen. You can see little friendly jabs to the choreographer in the film. When Kurt Wimmer performs the Gun Kata at the beginning, you see it's very fluid and smooth. The way it's actually used in the film is very rigid with a few flowing moves thrown in.