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Last and First Men

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Two billion years ahead of us, a future race of humans finds itself on the verge of extinction. Almost all that is left in the world are lone and surreal monuments, beaming their message into the wilderness.
Director
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Year
2020
Genre
fantasy, mystery, sci-fi
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Awards
2 wins & 5 nominations total

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We, who are the last men, earnestly desire to communicate with you. - Last and First Men 00:06
We, who are the last men, earnestly desire to communicate wi...
I am speaking to you now - Last and First Men 00:09
I am speaking to you now
Astronomers have made a startling discovery, - Last and First Men 00:07
Astronomers have made a startling discovery,
We can help you - - Last and First Men 00:06
We can help you -
When your writers romance about the future, - Last and First Men 00:14
When your writers romance about the future,
No such paradise existed - Last and First Men 00:08
No such paradise existed
Instead, we have watched huge fluctuations of joy and woe, - Last and First Men 00:19
Instead, we have watched huge fluctuations of joy and woe,
Human existence has been less like a mountain torrent - Last and First Men 00:11
Human existence has been less like a mountain torrent
Ages of dormancy, often of stagnation, - Last and First Men 00:19
Ages of dormancy, often of stagnation,
At any stage of its career, humanity might have been exterminated - Last and First Men 00:20
At any stage of its career, humanity might have been extermi...
And so it was that humanity detected a volume of non-luminous gas. - Last and First Men 00:07
And so it was that humanity detected a volume of non-luminou...
Calculation showed that this object and the sun - Last and First Men 00:10
Calculation showed that this object and the sun
As a result of this, the sun would flare up and expand prodigiously. - Last and First Men 00:07
As a result of this, the sun would flare up and expand prodi...
Life would be quite impossible on any of the planets - Last and First Men 00:10
Life would be quite impossible on any of the planets
Some of our predecessors, - Last and First Men 00:12
Some of our predecessors,
But at length, our earlier species excelled itself - Last and First Men 00:15
But at length, our earlier species excelled itself
Ten more species succeeded one another on the plains of Neptune. - Last and First Men 00:05
Ten more species succeeded one another on the plains of Nept...
We, the 18th, are the last men. - Last and First Men 00:05
We, the 18th, are the last men.
If you could enter this world of the last men, - Last and First Men 00:11
If you could enter this world of the last men,
You would encounter creatures recognizably human, - Last and First Men 00:10
You would encounter creatures recognizably human,
Some of these fantastic beings you would find covered with fur or mole velvet, - Last and First Men 00:10
Some of these fantastic beings you would find covered with f...
Others display brown, yellow, or ruddy skin, - Last and First Men 00:09
Others display brown, yellow, or ruddy skin,
You might call us faun-like, ape-like, - Last and First Men 00:11
You might call us faun-like, ape-like,
Yet some characteristics are common to all of us. - Last and First Men 00:05
Yet some characteristics are common to all of us.
The upward-looking astronomical eye on the crown of the skull would shock you. - Last and First Men 00:06
The upward-looking astronomical eye on the crown of the skul...
This organ, when fully extended about a handbreadth from its bony case, - Last and First Men 00:14
This organ, when fully extended about a handbreadth from its...
Scattered about the green plains of our colonized planet, - Last and First Men 00:08
Scattered about the green plains of our colonized planet,
These buildings would seem like geometrical mountains to you. - Last and First Men 00:06
These buildings would seem like geometrical mountains to you...
In many cases, the whole fabric is translucent or transparent. - Last and First Men 00:06
In many cases, the whole fabric is translucent or transparen...
So that at night, with internal illumination, it appears as an edifice of light. - Last and First Men 00:07
So that at night, with internal illumination, it appears as ...
Springing from a base twenty or more miles across, - Last and First Men 00:11
Springing from a base twenty or more miles across,
Some of them are almost as old as our species. - Last and First Men 00:05
Some of them are almost as old as our species.
Every successive culture has expressed itself - Last and First Men 00:08
Every successive culture has expressed itself
In their summits work the hosts of our astronomers: - Last and First Men 00:12
In their summits work the hosts of our astronomers:
Each of us goes there, at one time or another. - Last and First Men 00:04
Each of us goes there, at one time or another.
Together, we perform the symbolic acts - Last and First Men 00:09
Together, we perform the symbolic acts
Our children are very different beings from the first human children. - Last and First Men 00:05
Our children are very different beings from the first human ...
Their number in our world is small in relation to our immense population. - Last and First Men 00:06
Their number in our world is small in relation to our immens...
Yet, seeing that every one of us is potentially immortal, - Last and First Men 00:10
Yet, seeing that every one of us is potentially immortal,
Our policy is to produce new individuals of a higher order than ourselves. - Last and First Men 00:07
Our policy is to produce new individuals of a higher order t...
As a result, we need a continuous supply of children. - Last and First Men 00:05
As a result, we need a continuous supply of children.
Infancy lasts for about a century - Last and First Men 00:08
Infancy lasts for about a century
When our children attain physical adolescence, nearly a thousand years after birth, - Last and First Men 00:18
When our children attain physical adolescence, nearly a thou...
There, our young people live the half-primitive, half-sophisticated life - Last and First Men 00:09
There, our young people live the half-primitive, half-sophis...
They love - Last and First Men 00:06
They love
We live through all the mistakes of thought and action - Last and First Men 00:09
We live through all the mistakes of thought and action
And, at last, we emerge ready for a world of maturity. - Last and First Men 00:07
And, at last, we emerge ready for a world of maturity.
The designers of our species set out to produce a new order of mentality - Last and First Men 00:11
The designers of our species set out to produce a new order ...
The immense difference between ourselves and all other human species - Last and First Men 00:10
The immense difference between ourselves and all other human...
When these individuals join in simultaneous mental unity, - Last and First Men 00:11
When these individuals join in simultaneous mental unity,
They are able to enter into past minds. - Last and First Men 00:04
They are able to enter into past minds.
Away from those contented to remain on the planet's surface are the navigators - Last and First Men 00:12
Away from those contented to remain on the planet's sur...
The navigators mentally form a unique class among us - Last and First Men 00:13
The navigators mentally form a unique class among us
They are a Hardy, simple, and modest folk. - Last and First Men 00:05
They are a Hardy, simple, and modest folk.
Recently, an exploration ship returned from a voyage into the outer tracts through space. - Last and First Men 00:07
Recently, an exploration ship returned from a voyage into th...
The survivors were emaciated - Last and First Men 00:09
The survivors were emaciated
Throughout the voyage, an unexpected alteration - Last and First Men 00:09
Throughout the voyage, an unexpected alteration
It began to change from white to Violet and increase in brightness. - Last and First Men 00:07
It began to change from white to Violet and increase in brig...
When the ship returned, the crew flung open the ports - Last and First Men 00:09
When the ship returned, the crew flung open the ports
These poor human wrecks have shown a phobia of the stars - Last and First Men 00:09
These poor human wrecks have shown a phobia of the stars
They cling piteously to the sweets of individual life, - Last and First Men 00:05
They cling piteously to the sweets of individual life,
The navigators have made a startling discovery. - Last and First Men 00:05
The navigators have made a startling discovery.
It is something unprecedented: - Last and First Men 00:12
It is something unprecedented:
We hoped that our sun might prove too distant to be seriously influenced, - Last and First Men 00:11
We hoped that our sun might prove too distant to be seriousl...
Within thirty thousand years, - Last and First Men 00:09
Within thirty thousand years,
So vast a radius - Last and First Men 00:08
So vast a radius
The discovery of this doom kindled in us unfamiliar emotions. - Last and First Men 00:07
The discovery of this doom kindled in us unfamiliar emotions...
Outwardly, everyone behaved with perfect Serenity, - Last and First Men 00:16
Outwardly, everyone behaved with perfect Serenity,
There was nothing left for us to do - Last and First Men 00:10
There was nothing left for us to do
And there again came upon us - Last and First Men 00:08
And there again came upon us
For a whole year, every individual entered a trance - Last and First Men 00:09
For a whole year, every individual entered a trance
And in consequence of this, - Last and First Men 00:10
And in consequence of this,
First, we have set about the forlorn task - Last and First Men 00:09
First, we have set about the forlorn task
We have devised minute electromagnetic wave-systems - Last and First Men 00:10
We have devised minute electromagnetic wave-systems
These units are so cunningly interrelated that they combine to form spores of life. - Last and First Men 00:07
These units are so cunningly interrelated that they combine ...
We shall project these particles in immense quantities. - Last and First Men 00:05
We shall project these particles in immense quantities.
But the chance that any of them will survive to find a suitable environment is small. - Last and First Men 00:07
But the chance that any of them will survive to find a suita...
It is clear to us that the work will not be completed - Last and First Men 00:09
It is clear to us that the work will not be completed
The second task that occupies us relates to the past. - Last and First Men 00:05
The second task that occupies us relates to the past.
We have long been able to enter and participate in the experiences of past minds - Last and First Men 00:09
We have long been able to enter and participate in the exper...
But recently, we have discovered the power of influencing the past. - Last and First Men 00:06
But recently, we have discovered the power of influencing th...
This may seem to be an impossibility. A past event is what it is. - Last and First Men 00:06
This may seem to be an impossibility. A past event is what i...
But, in certain cases, some feature of a past event - Last and First Men 00:09
But, in certain cases, some feature of a past event
In certain rare cases, - Last and First Men 00:09
In certain rare cases,
The past can help us learn once again - Last and First Men 00:15
The past can help us learn once again
But what is it that we seek to contribute to the past? - Last and First Men 00:05
But what is it that we seek to contribute to the past?
We want to help the past make the best of itself. - Last and First Men 00:05
We want to help the past make the best of itself.
We seek to direct the attention of past individuals to truths, - Last and First Men 00:09
We seek to direct the attention of past individuals to truth...
Those of us who still care for the life of the mind - Last and First Men 00:12
Those of us who still care for the life of the mind
The mission we undertook had to be completed. - Last and First Men 00:04
The mission we undertook had to be completed.
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Two billion years ahead of us, a future race of humans finds itself on the verge of extinction. Almost all that is left in the world are lone and surreal monuments, beaming their message into the wilderness.

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Director: Jóhann Jóhannsson
Writer: Olaf Stapledon, Jóhann Jóhannsson, José Enrique Macián
Production: N/A
Genre: fantasy, mystery, sci-fi
Year: 2020
MetaScore: 80/100
ImdbRating: 6.7
BoxOffice: N/A
Released: 21 Sep 2020
Awards: 2 wins & 5 nominations total
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