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A few nitpicky points of your summary... Zed and Zardoz's chosen ones are the Exterminators and the rest of the people outside the Vortex are the Brutals. Zardoz literally says that he "raised them from Brutality". This is a better definition of what and who the mutants are. I didn't pick up the point of the bodies in the stone head as being Eternals, but Brutals that have been sacrificed to Zardoz for human biomass to continue the regeneration of the Eternals. Essentially, they get tossed into that room of the human bodies floating in the walls and create new bodies for the Eternals when they die. May doesn't want to die (or at least, not like the majority of the Eternals in the Vortex) but wants to end the reproduction ban as to end the stagnation and introduce new ideas in the Vortex by bearing subsequent generations. She is the one most fascinated by Zed when he comes into the Vortex, since he is the new superman that eclipses their own power. She and her small group escape destruction, impregnated by Zed's seed and carrying the Tabernacle so they can keep the knowledge of humanity, but without being confined by the limits of the Vortex and hopefully be a boon to all humanity.
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Vermain posted:Zardoz is part of a long line of "escape from Paradise" films: THX-1138, Equilibrium, Brave New World, etc. They're mostly meant to underline the fundamental importance of the "human condition" in making life worthwhile. A lack of suffering and death leads to stagnation, and, ultimately, nihilism (represented by the Eternals who do nothing but stand perfectly still forever). There's also a shitload of obvious class imagery to pick apart: the Eternals arm their own private militia in order to gather food so that they can sit around and navel gaze all day, and only the destruction of their society (represented in the Tabernacle) puts a stop to it. The best shot: the Eternals playing around in their Eden while the Brutals in their drab hand-me-down clothes, backed by a smoggy backdrop, beat on the Vortex shield walls.
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