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It is considered a cult film, with its mix of mythology, a bizarre, sprawling plot filled with twists and incongruities, wide-ranging satirical and allegorical stabs. Although its 1970s aesthetic has dated badly, the film is nonetheless visually impressive, filmed in a perpetually soft-focus haze by cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth . Boorman's studio, 20th Century Fox, was dismayed at the uncommercial mess he presented to them and forced the addition of a misleading prologue and trailers that were at odds with the film. An attempt to market the film to the post-' ' audience was unsuccessful, although the film remains enough of a cult to have justified a release on DVDDVD is an optical disc storage media format that is used for playback of movies with high video and sound quality and for storing data. DVDs are similar in appearance to compact discs. History During the early 1990s there were two high density optical sto with a commentary track by John Boorman.

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1 Plot

In a future post-apocalypse Earth ( 2293 ) the human population is divided into the immortalImmortality is the concept of existing for a potentially infinite or indeterminate length of time. Throughout history humans have had the desire to live forever. The most commonly conceived form of immortality involves a spiritual existence after physical 'Eternals' and mortal 'Brutals'. The Brutals live in a wasteland, growing food for the Eternals, who live apart in 'the Vortex', leading a luxurious but pathetic existence in the grounds of a country estateAn Estate is the grounds and often farmland and woods surrounding a very large property, such as a country house or mansion. It may refer to just the grounds or to the property and all other cottages and villages in the same ownership as the mansion itsel. The connection between the two groups is through Brutal Exterminators, who kill and terrorize other Brutals at the orders of a huge flying stone head called Zardoz, which supplies them with weapons in exchange for the food they collect. Zed (Connery) is a Brutal Exterminator. He hides aboard Zardoz during one trip, "temporarily" killing its Eternal operator-creator Arthur Frayn (Niall Buggy).

Arriving in the Vortex Zed meets two Eternals, Consuella ( Charlotte Rampling) and May ( Sara Kestleman ), and is experimented upon by one of them before being made to work for another Eternal, a troublemaker called Friend ( John Alderton ). The Eternals are overseen and protected from death by an AI called the Tabernacle (a large crystal mass in appearance) and have problems themselves, falling into catatonia through an odd illness or being deliberately aged into senility for violating a complex set of social rules. Zed discovers an old book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and he realizes the origin of the name Zardoz. It is then revealed that Zed was created by Frayn to destroy the Vortex and restore death to the bored Eternals. Zed finds a flaw in the Tabernacle and destroys it, after which the Brutals bring death to the majority of Eternals. A few Eternals escape to make a new life outside the Vortex. The bitter-sweet ending shows Zed and Consuella producing a child, growing old and dying naturally.