こんなに安くなっちゃって（笑）。映画も今観るとある意味かなり安い映画ですが傑作だと思います。知的な物語ですが、これ観て笑っちゃう人もたくさんいるでしょうね。赤いブリーフはいたショーン・コネリーなんか凄いです。巨大な人面岩がクラシックをバックに宙を浮いているシーンなんてめまいがするほど素晴らしい。いろんな意味で楽しめる映画でしたが、この映像のセンスを受け入れられるかどうかにかかっている気がします。
This movie is satisfying on many dimensions from social commentary to sci-fi to visual impact to mystery and so forth. It is impossible to extract much logic from it when watched on commercial TV as every word and gesture has a meaning and an answer as to what will come next. Being permeated with flashbacks and revelations that come later in the movie it is not practical to tell the story as it needs to be revealed in the proper order for the cohesion to take place.
The story takes place in the future sometime after the un-named calamity has divided humans into those in enclaves, called vortexes and others that live outside. Arthur Frayne (Niall Buggy) a resident of Vortex Four and has reason to travel outside to the brutels. There he poses as a god (Zardoz). The meaning of Zardoz may be reveals in time. On one of the trips Arthur does not return; instead ZED (Sean Connery) a genetically designed assassin returns in his place. This leads to many questions as where is Arthur and is there a purpose or just coincidence that Zed is here? How did he get here? More important is he what he appears to be?
This movie is satisfying on many dimensions from social commentary to sci-fi to visual impact to mystery and so forth. It is impossible to extract much logic from it when watched on commercial TV as every word and gesture has a meaning and an answer as to what will come next. Being permeated with flashbacks and revelations that come later in the movie it is not practical to tell the story as it needs to be revealed in the proper order for the cohesion to take place.
The story takes place in the future sometime after the un-named calamity has divided humans into those in enclaves, called vortexes and others that live outside. Arthur Frayne (Niall Buggy) a resident of Vortex Four and has reason to travel outside to the brutels. There he poses as a god (Zardoz). The meaning of Zardoz may be reveals in time. On one of the trips Arthur does not return; instead ZED (Sean Connery) a genetically designed assassin returns in his place. This leads to many questions as where is Arthur and is there a purpose or just coincidence that Zed is here? How did he get here? More important is he what he appears to be?
ボルテックスというのは、共産主義体制が目指したユートピアのを具現化した社会か？
この映画が作製された当時は、東西冷戦の真っ只中。俗に言う西側が、東側の社会体制をユートピアの仮面を被ったボルテックスになぞらえて、エリート社会を多数の奴隷で維持していると揶揄している内容ですね。当時の東側諸国が国民を操作する手法や社会体制を劇中のストーンヘッド…ザルドスという名の神として奴隷支配に利用…に象徴しています。つまりは共産体制は見せ掛けだけのユートピアであり、内外へのプロパガンダで維持している。そして、その政府は“オズの魔法使い”でしかないという比喩です。
字を覚えた主人公のゼッドが、廃墟の図書館で本を読み漁り、ボルテックスの核心を知るきっかけとなった本に出会います。この本が『オズの魔法使い』．．．Wizard of OZ... 本の表紙がチョイと破れていて、..zard..oz になっていたシーンでは感動してしいました。
ＳＦ映画としての撮影はお粗末ですが、映画の内容自体は名作の部類に属すると思います。
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