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John Preston is a fictional character who appears in the 2002 film Equilibrium. Preston is...

John Preston is a fictional character who appears in the 2002 film Equilibrium. Preston is portrayed by Christian Bale. In the film Preston holds the rank of "Grammaton Cleric First Class"; a rank to which Grammaton Cleric Brandt (Taye Diggs) aspires. In post World War III Earth the citizens of Libria, the last civilized stronghold left, are kept sedated by injections of Prozium, a sedative that all citizens take at various times during their day. Books, music, art...anything that causes an emotional reaction is deemed to be EC-10 (Emotional Content-10), forbidden material. John Preston, whose intuitive ability to discern 'sense-offenders' (people who have halted their doses of Prozium and can feel emotions) gives him the ability to hunt them down, is a widower with two children who lives to serve the Tetragrammaton Council. His perfection of Gun Kata, and his lack of emotion make him the deadliest of enforcers. He is able to quell Resistance cells single-handedly. His own wife, Viviana Preston, was executed for being a 'sense-offender', a point that Preston's superior points out is ironic, given that Preston lived with her, but never sensed her crime. Viviana kissed her husband