Dressed as an aristocrat |
1. His house has a black and white checkerboard floor, like the floor of every masonic lodge, and his doorways are flanked by two very noticeable ornate pillars, like Jachin and Boaz.
2. He is a member of the elite, a biowarfare specialist. He sometimes dresses in the manner of old aristocracy and enjoys chess and fine art.
3. When he introduces himself to Dutch, the leader of the healthy survivors, Lisa, another survivor says, "Well if the Masonic rites are over...". She really does say it, check it with the subtitles on. What's odd is that the scene seems to have nothing Masonic about it.
The Star Children
At the end of the film, the Omega Man is killed in a fountain, his body laid out in an obviously Crucifixion-like pose. Through Heston's vaccine, he is able to save the New World of survivors, but he himself is the dying Old Order, as the movie states. This Christ (or Antichrist?) figure gives the vaccine to a group of children, all of who are mysteriously unaffected by the disease. These represent the Star Children, Starseed or Rainbow Warriors of the future. In the film, they come from all different races and live together in harmony to start the human race anew, as Dutch says "like the garden of Eden". Richie, one of them, says that Heston is "not like them" because he is "hostile". Heston is the old age of killing and science, the surviving children are the new world of peace and love under the one Creator. Anyone who survives the next few years will certainly be grateful for some peace and love!
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