Zardoz

Penic erection was one of the many unsolved evolutionary mysteries of sexuality. 309 00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:22,377 Every society had an elaborate subculture devoted to erotic stimulation. 310 00:41:22,481 --> 00:41:26,506 But nobody could quite determine how this 311 00:41:26,611 --> 00:41:28,687 becomes this. 312 00:41:29,822 --> 00:41:32,346 We all know the physical process involved, 313 00:41:32,450 --> 00:41:35,985 but not the link between stimulus and response. 314 00:41:36,996 --> 00:41:40,937 There seems to be a correlation with violence, with fear. 315 00:41:41,042 --> 00:41:44,483 Many hanged men died with an erection. 316 00:41:44,587 --> 00:41:49,780 You are all more or less aware of our intensive researches into the subject. 317 00:41:49,884 --> 00:41:54,826 Sexuality declined probably because we no longer needed to procreate. 318 00:41:54,931 --> 00:41:59,509 Eternals soon discovered that erection was impossible to achieve. 319 00:42:01,229 --> 00:42:04,795 And we are no longer victims of this violent, convulsive act, 320 00:42:04,899 --> 00:42:08,019 which so debased women and betrayed men. 321 00:42:08,569 --> 00:42:14,971 This brutal, like other primates living unselfconscious lives, 322 00:42:15,076 --> 00:42:19,156 is capable of spontaneous and reflexive erection. 323 00:42:19,664 --> 00:42:22,104 As part of May's studies of this creature, 324 00:42:22,208 --> 00:42:27,734 we are trying to find once again the link between erotic stimulation and erection. 325 00:42:27,839 --> 00:42:34,074 This experiment will measure autoerotic stimulation of the cortex leading to erection. 326 00:42:34,178 --> 00:42:36,254 Play. 327 00:42:47,817 --> 00:42:53,238 The tracer indicates that this image is not erotically stimulating to the brutal. 328 00:42:56,450 --> 00:42:57,530 Change. 329 00:43:16,137 --> 00:43:19,173 This doesn't seem to affect him either. 330 00:43:48,419 --> 00:43:51,337 Consuella's done the trick herself. 331 00:44:13,110 --> 00:44:16,551 The brutal is now in fourth hour of unconscious sleep. 332 00:44:16,656 --> 00:44:21,515 It's astonishing that Homo sapiens spends so much time in this vulnerable condition, 333 00:44:21,619 --> 00:44:24,110 at the mercy of its enemies. 334 00:44:25,331 --> 00:44:28,230 Is there data on sleeping patterns of primitive people? 335 00:44:28,334 --> 00:44:30,825 - Is that a priority request? - Yes. 336 00:44:33,172 --> 00:44:37,336 I'm now going to test its waking response to danger stimuli. 337 00:44:56,821 --> 00:44:58,969 Does it please you to sleep? 338 00:44:59,073 --> 00:45:00,429 Yes. 339 00:45:00,533 --> 00:45:02,472 Why? 340 00:45:02,577 --> 00:45:04,653 I have dreams. 341 00:45:05,746 --> 00:45:08,020 Sleep was necessary for man 342 00:45:08,124 --> 00:45:12,274 when his waking and unconscious lives were separated. 343 00:45:12,378 --> 00:45:15,402 As eternals achieved total consciousness, 344 00:45:15,506 --> 00:45:21,130 sleep became obsolete, and second-level meditation took its place. 345 00:45:22,430 --> 00:45:25,550 Sleep was closely connected with death. 346 00:45:27,768 --> 00:45:31,460 Look at it. It's you. 347 00:45:31,564 --> 00:45:35,099 Your genetic structure. Your life chart. 348 00:45:36,944 --> 00:45:39,020 Look. 349 00:45:44,702 --> 00:45:46,778 You are a mutant. 350 00:45:47,747 --> 00:45:51,605 Second, maybe third generation. 351 00:45:51,709 --> 00:45:53,785 Therefore genetically stable. 352 00:45:54,962 --> 00:45:57,194 Enlarged brain. 353 00:45:57,298 --> 00:45:59,988 Total recall. 354 00:46:00,092 --> 00:46:02,168 Your potential is... 355 00:46:03,596 --> 00:46:06,716 - Your breeding potential... - Breeding? 356 00:46:07,475 --> 00:46:11,686 Frayn. How did you get into the vortex? What is your purpose? 357 00:46:12,939 --> 00:46:15,940 I'm just an exterminator. I know nothing. 358 00:46:16,776 --> 00:46:21,426 You must know that you're mentally and physically vastly superior 359 00:46:21,531 --> 00:46:23,689 to me or anyone else here. 360 00:46:25,576 --> 00:46:28,058 You could be anything. 361 00:46:28,162 --> 00:46:30,238 Could do anything. 362 00:46:33,084 --> 00:46:34,981 - You must be destroyed. - Why? 363 00:46:35,086 --> 00:46:39,986 - Because you could destroy us. - As you destroyed the rest of life? 364 00:46:40,091 --> 00:46:43,626 Can you unknow what you know now about me? 365 00:46:46,264 --> 00:46:50,122 For the sake of science, I will keep this knowledge from the others, 366 00:46:50,226 --> 00:46:52,717 for the moment, keep you alive. 367 00:46:53,354 --> 00:46:56,837 But you must follow me. Obey me. 368 00:46:56,941 --> 00:47:00,007 Be circumspect. Make no disruption. 369 00:47:00,111 --> 00:47:04,025 Quietly do whatever work is given you. I will watch over you. 370 00:47:05,366 --> 00:47:07,98...