Director: John Boorman
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Rating: D
"The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds,
and makes new life to poison the Earth with a plague of men, as once it
was, but the gun shoots death, and purifies the Earth of the filth of
brutals. Go forth ... and kill!"
Thus begins the classic cult film Zardoz. In the year 2293 the Earth is inhabited primarily by a people called the Brutals, who are ruled without realizing it by the Eternals. As the names might suggest, the Brutals live a life of brutality while the Eternals lived a life of ease - a life that lasted forever. The Brutals, however, don't actually know about the Eternals. Instead, they are more directly ruled over by a class known as the Exterminators, who worship the god Zardoz. Zardoz appears to them in the form of a giant flying, hollow stone head, where the Exterminators deposit grain in exchange for guns.Enter the Exterminator Zed (Connery) hides in the head of Zardoz, where he's brought to the Vortex - the community of the Eternals that is protected from the Brutals by an invisible force-field. Here Zed meets two Eternals, Consuella (Rampling) and May (Kestelman), and begins to figure out this new world around him.
Thus begins the classic cult film Zardoz. In the year 2293 the Earth is inhabited primarily by a people called the Brutals, who are ruled without realizing it by the Eternals. As the names might suggest, the Brutals live a life of brutality while the Eternals lived a life of ease - a life that lasted forever. The Brutals, however, don't actually know about the Eternals. Instead, they are more directly ruled over by a class known as the Exterminators, who worship the god Zardoz. Zardoz appears to them in the form of a giant flying, hollow stone head, where the Exterminators deposit grain in exchange for guns.Enter the Exterminator Zed (Connery) hides in the head of Zardoz, where he's brought to the Vortex - the community of the Eternals that is protected from the Brutals by an invisible force-field. Here Zed meets two Eternals, Consuella (Rampling) and May (Kestelman), and begins to figure out this new world around him.
And the entire time, Sean Connery looks like this. Except for when he's wearing a wedding dress. I kid you not. That bit is possibly the best moment of the entire film, Sean Connery running around the Vortex in a wedding dress. The other costumes are rather quesitonable too... and when it comes down to it, all I can do is hope that I'm not alive to see the future inspired by 70s fashion.
The plot for this movie is laughable at best. I spent most of it wondering just what the hell was going on, and even when I had it figured out I still wasn't sure. The plot overall was a lot like the costume; it's weird, it's confusing, it's disturbing and distressing, and yet for some reason you can't seem to look away. It's not really good... but I'm not too sure if it's really bad either. Disturbing. That's the word I'm going to go with.
The plot for this movie is laughable at best. I spent most of it wondering just what the hell was going on, and even when I had it figured out I still wasn't sure. The plot overall was a lot like the costume; it's weird, it's confusing, it's disturbing and distressing, and yet for some reason you can't seem to look away. It's not really good... but I'm not too sure if it's really bad either. Disturbing. That's the word I'm going to go with.
No comments:
Post a Comment