Equilibrium (2002): In a futuristic world, a strict regime has eliminated war by suppressing emotions: books, art and music are strictly forbidden and feeling is a crime punishable by death. Cleric John Preston (Bale) is a top ranking government agent responsible for destroying those who resist the rules. And this film gave nods to Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1925), as well as to both film versions of Orwell's 1984. When they show the city of the future it is Lang's city you are seeing along with very similar scenes in Metropolis. Orwell and the Telescreen as well as the "Thought Police" were evident in the film as well. Along with Lang's workers and Orwell's Proles. With a few touches of Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 in dealing with contraband and those possessing it.