ZARDOZ (1973)

'''ZARDOZ. John Boorman, dir.''' USA: John Boorman Productions / 20th Century-Fox, 1973.

Zed (Sean Connery) brings love and death to a static, computer-run "utopia" appropriately called a Vortex. Includes some shots of huge mechanical wombs and a sequence with Zed in the computer (a mysterious crystal). See under Fiction, Boorman's novelization, Zardoz. Cf. and contrast ZARDOZ, as both novel and film, with A. C. Clarke, City and the Stars (q.v., under Fiction). Discussed by V. Sobchack in The Limits of Infinity (see Sobchack's index).