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I didn’t really like the movie. I thought Jordan was fantastic as always but the ‘oooh evil social media surveillance’ concept was boring and missed a lot of good points from the book. The scenes where we get to see the people who have ‘become’ authors by memorizing literature were the most impactful in my opinion, and I really wish there had been more emphasis on that. I have never seen Equilibrium but what you said about retelling/adaptation made me think of my favorite musical, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812! It is based on a 70-page chunk of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace and shapes an entire story around the characters and events of that section; the original work (in English translation) is often quoted exactly in the lyrics, but the composer Dave Malloy does take some liberty in adding backstory or altering things.