I have decided to do a second blog on Zardoz because I really do not have much to say about the film “The Wall” other than it threw me off even more so than “Zardoz” did. It seems like the core message of “Zardoz” was that the more we separate ourselves from nature, the worse we get. Because of this, the film has similar ideas that “Blade Runner” addresses. For example, both offer the genesis story where the two people left are those broken away from society. Zed and Consuella hid away in a cave and had a child together. Neither died but rather started their own little society. As for the other film, the two replicants or possible replicant and human ran away from their society. Both of these societies that had been run away from were tainted by humans and no longer were enriched by nature. The people in “Zardoz” had a crystal that they had created as their god. The people in “Blade Runner” were looking at Tyrell as their man made god. The problem with humans acting as gods is that they soon get bored with repetition and eventually, their creations crumble. These two films helped demonstrate how a man made future is not exactly the brightest one.
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