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Equilibrium: Analysis: Colonization

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In a two dimensional shape, a centre is point that is equidistant from all edges of a shape.

Hence, without the edges, a centre cannot be determined. The idea of centre is used to depict colonisation where a coloniser becomes a centre to the margin that the colonised are made into. The idea of the centre was not only geographical, but also, political and social. The centre is geographically where the ruler(s) resides. Politically, centre is the entity with which/whom, power rests. Socially, the opinion makers are considered the centre. During colonisation, the coloniser becomes the most power politically. The coloniser is the opinion maker, and, geographically, they rule the colony based out of their homeland. The aim of the centre is to bring into their influence, the occupants of the margin or periphery.

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I have chosen a visual text(movie) called, “Equilibrium” to better understand and explain the concept of the centre-margin relationship. The movie is a science-fiction and is set in the future after the third world war. Due to the war, everything is destroyed and the leaders come together to form a council that takes to a new approach to governing people to prevent any future world wars. This approach involves preventing people from feeling emotion by …show more content…

Consolidation of power with a certain entity, be it, place, person, state etc, makes it the centre. Who or what ever the centre has power over becomes the margin. This concept of centre-margin might pose a dilemma similar to that of the chicken and the egg, as to which came first, the centre or the margin. The text can be used to clear this confusion. The rulers came together to build a system of government. People submitting to the form of government made the government powerful, thereby, making them the centre of the periphery that the citizens formed. Physical centre in the movie is a building called the “Equilibrium” which was the headquarters of the

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