Last and First Men

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Year: 2021

Runtime: 70 min

Language: English

Director: Jóhann Jóhannsson

Echo Score: 58

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In the far future, as humanity faces extinction, a message travels through time, seeking to influence the past. This science fiction film explores the rise and fall of civilization, portraying both extraordinary achievements and devastating consequences. It follows the final survivors as they embark on a desperate mission to communicate with their predecessors, hoping to alter the course of history and perhaps save what remains of humankind.

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A Voice from Humanity's Final Species Surveys Two Billion Years of Rise, Collapse, Migration, Mutation, and Conscious Evolution across Eighteen Successive Human Forms · by Olaf Stapledon

Why this book?

Jóhann Jóhannsson's film does not dramatize Stapledon's full two-billion-year chronicle. Tilda Swinton voices an adapted address from a future human consciousness, especially material associated with the last species and impending extinction, while black-and-white images survey the massive Spomenik monuments of former Yugoslavia. The combination creates an audiovisual essay on memory and scale, extracting the book's terminal perspective and cosmic melancholy while leaving most civilizations, species and historical argument outside the film.

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