Sean Connery stars in director John Boorman's strange(to say the least) Sci-Fi satire as Zed, a warrior in a future Earth divided into two groups; Zed's, a violent world of marauding raiders struggling for survival, and costar Charlotte Rampling's, an intellectual world of thinkers inside a dome who have grown bored, and look at the outsiders as subhuman savages to be studied. They kidnap Zed to study him, but Rampling's character becomes attracted to his handsome vitality, and escorts him around their world, which has become a very weird place indeed...
Oh yes, a giant flying head appears periodically to the outsiders to give them weapons, which eventually leads to a war.
Bizarre satire is undeniably original and ambitious, but at some point, it becomes obvious that someone connected with it isn't taking this at all seriously, since it rambles close to self-parody(the eventual fates of the intellectuals comes to mind.) A noble failure, best viewed rather than described(Worth seeing at least once, not that I can honestly recommend it of course!)
Oh yes, a giant flying head appears periodically to the outsiders to give them weapons, which eventually leads to a war.
Bizarre satire is undeniably original and ambitious, but at some point, it becomes obvious that someone connected with it isn't taking this at all seriously, since it rambles close to self-parody(the eventual fates of the intellectuals comes to mind.) A noble failure, best viewed rather than described(Worth seeing at least once, not that I can honestly recommend it of course!)