1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:01:55,417 --> 00:01:57,874 Listen patiently. 4 00:02:04,458 --> 00:02:09,907 We, who are the last men, earnestly desire to communicate with you. 5 00:02:47,375 --> 00:02:49,366 I am speaking to you now 6 00:02:49,542 --> 00:02:54,912 from a period about two thousand million terrestrial years in your future. 7 00:03:02,208 --> 00:03:05,200 Astronomers have made a startling discovery, 8 00:03:05,375 --> 00:03:08,663 which assigns a speedy end to humankind. 9 00:03:20,750 --> 00:03:23,708 We can help you - 10 00:03:23,875 --> 00:03:26,036 and we need your help. 11 00:04:41,583 --> 00:04:45,405 When your writers romance about the future, 12 00:04:45,583 --> 00:04:49,872 they imagine a progress toward some kind of utopia 13 00:04:50,042 --> 00:04:54,365 where beings like themselves live in unmitigated bliss. 14 00:04:59,750 --> 00:05:02,287 No such paradise existed 15 00:05:02,458 --> 00:05:06,497 through the eons that lie between your age and mine. 16 00:05:13,875 --> 00:05:19,700 Instead, we have watched huge fluctuations of joy and woe, 17 00:05:21,958 --> 00:05:26,122 the results of changes not only in humanity's environment, 18 00:05:28,875 --> 00:05:31,867 but also in its fluid nature. 19 00:05:47,417 --> 00:05:50,909 Human existence has been less like a mountain torrent 20 00:05:53,250 --> 00:05:57,368 than a great sluggish river, seldom broken by rapids. 21 00:06:11,958 --> 00:06:16,782 Ages of dormancy, often of stagnation, 22 00:06:17,792 --> 00:06:23,367 filled with monotonous problems and toils of countless almost identical lives, 23 00:06:26,208 --> 00:06:30,121 were punctuated by rare bursts. 24 00:06:55,375 --> 00:06:58,287 Existence has always been precarious. 25 00:06:59,375 --> 00:07:03,493 At any stage of its career, humanity might have been exterminated 26 00:07:03,667 --> 00:07:07,330 by some slight alteration to its chemical environment, 27 00:07:08,292 --> 00:07:12,080 by a more than usually malignant microbe, 28 00:07:12,250 --> 00:07:15,367 by a radical change of climate, 29 00:07:15,542 --> 00:07:18,614 by the manifold effects of its own folly, 30 00:07:26,833 --> 00:07:29,415 Or by some celestial event. 31 00:07:49,708 --> 00:07:56,113 And so it was that humanity detected a volume of non-luminous gas. 32 00:08:10,417 --> 00:08:14,490 Calculation showed that this object and the sun 33 00:08:14,667 --> 00:08:19,286 were approaching one another at a tangent and would collide. 34 00:08:28,625 --> 00:08:34,996 As a result of this, the sun would flare up and expand prodigiously. 35 00:08:53,583 --> 00:08:58,282 Life would be quite impossible on any of the planets 36 00:08:58,458 --> 00:09:02,155 save, perhaps, Neptune. 37 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:23,865 Some of our predecessors, 38 00:09:24,042 --> 00:09:28,866 realizing that they themselves could never live on the inhospitably remote planet, 39 00:09:29,042 --> 00:09:33,035 advocated an orgiastic celebration of pleasure until the end. 40 00:10:13,292 --> 00:10:17,661 But at length, our earlier species excelled itself 41 00:10:17,833 --> 00:10:22,532 in an almost unanimous resolve to devote its remaining centuries 42 00:10:22,708 --> 00:10:27,748 to the production of a new human species into a new world. 43 00:11:17,500 --> 00:11:21,994 Ten more species succeeded one another on the plains of Neptune. 44 00:11:32,167 --> 00:11:36,160 We, the 18th, are the last men. 45 00:12:24,292 --> 00:12:27,284 If you could enter this world of the last men, 46 00:12:27,458 --> 00:12:29,790 you would find some things familiar 47 00:12:29,958 --> 00:12:34,076 and much that would seem strangely distorted and perverse. 48 00:12:36,792 --> 00:12:41,411 You would encounter creatures recognizably human, 49 00:12:41,583 --> 00:12:45,451 yet in your view grotesque. 50 00:12:49,708 --> 00:12:55,533 Some of these fantastic beings you would find covered with fur or mole velvet, 51 00:12:55,708 --> 00:12:58,290 revealing the underlying muscles. 52 00:13:02,750 --> 00:13:06,948 Others display brown, yellow, or ruddy skin, 53 00:13:07,125 --> 00:13:10,788 and yet others a translucent ash-green. 54 00:13:26,292 --> 00:13:31,662 You might call us faun-like, ape-like, 55 00:13:31,833 --> 00:13:36,122 bear-like, or even elephantine. 56 00:15:21,708 --> 00:15:25,405 Yet some characteristics are common to all of us. 57 00:15:27,500 --> 00:15:32,665 The upward-looking astronomical eye on the crown of the skull would shock you. 58 00:15:50,833 --> 00:15:57,409 This organ, when fully extended about a handbreadth from its bony case, 59 00:15:57,583 --> 00:16:03,738 reveals the heavens in as much detail as your astronomical telescopes. 60 00:17:21,750 --> 00:17:26,323 Scattered about the green plains of our colonized planet, 61 00:17:26,500 --> 00:17:28,912 you would notice many buildings. 62 00:17:38,667 --> 00:17:43,866 These buildings would seem like geometrical mountains to you. 63 00:17:49,875 --> 00:17:54,915 In many cases, the whole fabric is translucent or transparent. 64 00:17:55,083 --> 00:18:01,079 So that at night, with internal illumination, it appears as an edifice of light. 65 00:18:53,458 --> 00:18:57,781 Springing from a base twenty or more miles across, 66 00:18:57,958 --> 00:19:03,578 the star-seeking towers attain a height where even the atmosphere is breached. 67 00:19:41,125 --> 00:19:44,697 Some of them are almost as old as our species. 68 00:19:47,083 --> 00:19:49,825 Some are not yet completed. 69 00:20:13,958 --> 00:20:17,496 Every successive culture has expressed itself 70 00:20:17,667 --> 00:20:20,989 in one or more of these supreme monuments. 71 00:20:29,833 --> 00:20:33,997 In their summits work the hosts of our astronomers: 72 00:20:34,167 --> 00:20:40,914 The essential eyes through which our community peers across the boundless ocean of space. 73 00:20:49,708 --> 00:20:53,030 Each of us goes there, at one time or another. 74 00:20:54,292 --> 00:20:57,534 Together, we perform the symbolic acts 75 00:20:57,708 --> 00:21:02,452 which replaced the debased rites of your religions long ago. 76 00:23:30,667 --> 00:23:34,740 Our children are very different beings from the first human children. 77 00:23:36,083 --> 00:23:40,782 Their number in our world is small in relation to our immense population. 78 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:46,494 Yet, seeing that every one of us is potentially immortal, 79 00:23:46,667 --> 00:23:51,036 you may wonder how we permit ourselves to have any children at all. 80 00:23:59,250 --> 00:24:05,576 Our policy is to produce new individuals of a higher order than ourselves. 81 00:24:10,458 --> 00:24:14,622 As a result, we need a continuous supply of children. 82 00:24:22,208 --> 00:24:24,915 The fetus is carried for twenty years. 83 00:24:27,875 --> 00:24:30,457 Infancy lasts for about a century 84 00:24:30,625 --> 00:24:34,789 when the foundations of body and mind are slowly laid. 85 00:25:04,417 --> 00:25:11,118 When our children attain physical adolescence, nearly a thousand years after birth, 86 00:25:11,292 --> 00:25:16,286 they leave the safe paths of childhood to spend another thousand years 87 00:25:16,458 --> 00:25:21,873 in one of the polar continents known as the land of the young. 88 00:25:28,125 --> 00:25:33,870 There, our young people live the half-primitive, half-sophisticated life 89 00:25:34,042 --> 00:25:36,454 that suits their nature. 90 00:25:40,125 --> 00:25:41,956 They love 91 00:25:43,292 --> 00:25:45,123 and hate. 92 00:28:19,750 --> 00:28:23,948 We live through all the mistakes of thought and action 93 00:28:24,125 --> 00:28:27,413 that humankind has ever made. 94 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:34,745 And, at last, we emerge ready for a world of maturity. 95 00:29:40,875 --> 00:29:46,199 The designers of our species set out to produce a new order of mentality 96 00:29:46,375 --> 00:29:50,914 in a system of distinct brains held in telepathic unity. 97 00:29:55,458 --> 00:30:00,498 The immense difference between ourselves and all other human species 98 00:30:00,667 --> 00:30:03,989 lies in the group-mind. 99 00:30:46,083 --> 00:30:50,656 When these individuals join in simultaneous mental unity, 100 00:30:51,375 --> 00:30:56,449 the entire past of the species appears as a personal memory. 101 00:31:22,833 --> 00:31:25,905 They are able to enter into past minds. 102 00:32:19,042 --> 00:32:25,197 Away from those contented to remain on the planet's surface are the navigators 103 00:32:25,375 --> 00:32:29,869 who embody humanity's proud mastery of interstellar space. 104 00:32:34,500 --> 00:32:39,665 The navigators mentally form a unique class among us 105 00:32:39,833 --> 00:32:42,449 because they spend so much of their time 106 00:32:42,625 --> 00:32:46,994 in the empty regions beyond the range of telepathic communication. 107 00:32:54,292 --> 00:32:58,114 They are a Hardy, simple, and modest folk. 108 00:34:13,083 --> 00:34:19,329 Recently, an exploration ship returned from a voyage into the outer tracts through space. 109 00:34:22,750 --> 00:34:25,366 Half the crew had died. 110 00:34:28,833 --> 00:34:31,415 The survivors were emaciated 111 00:34:34,083 --> 00:34:36,574 and mentally unbalanced. 112 00:34:38,958 --> 00:34:42,826 Throughout the voyage, an unexpected alteration 113 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,538 taking place in a neighboring star was observed. 114 00:34:50,083 --> 00:34:55,908 It began to change from white to Violet and increase in brightness. 115 00:35:03,708 --> 00:35:07,781 When the ship returned, the crew flung open the ports 116 00:35:07,958 --> 00:35:11,701 and staggered blubbering into the arms of the crowd. 117 00:35:17,875 --> 00:35:22,869 These poor human wrecks have shown a phobia of the stars 118 00:35:23,042 --> 00:35:25,533 and of all that is not human. 119 00:35:28,417 --> 00:35:30,874 They dare not go out at night. 120 00:35:32,292 --> 00:35:34,783 They cannot find companionship. 121 00:35:39,208 --> 00:35:43,622 They cling piteously to the sweets of individual life, 122 00:35:47,292 --> 00:35:50,284 a mere defense against reality. 123 00:37:54,542 --> 00:37:56,658 Listen patiently. 124 00:38:01,167 --> 00:38:05,160 The navigators have made a startling discovery. 125 00:38:07,375 --> 00:38:09,787 It is something unprecedented: 126 00:38:11,708 --> 00:38:17,908 A normal star suffering from a fantastic acceleration of its vital process. 127 00:38:20,292 --> 00:38:26,572 We hoped that our sun might prove too distant to be seriously influenced, 128 00:38:26,750 --> 00:38:29,822 but this hope had to be abandoned. 129 00:38:31,583 --> 00:38:34,199 Within thirty thousand years, 130 00:38:34,375 --> 00:38:39,665 life will be impossible anywhere within a vast radius of the sun... 131 00:38:39,833 --> 00:38:42,040 So vast a radius 132 00:38:42,208 --> 00:38:46,872 that it is quite impossible to propel our planet away fast enough to escape. 133 00:40:54,500 --> 00:41:00,040 The discovery of this doom kindled in us unfamiliar emotions. 134 00:41:15,417 --> 00:41:20,161 Outwardly, everyone behaved with perfect Serenity, 135 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:26,913 but inwardly, every mind was in turmoil 136 00:41:27,083 --> 00:41:30,826 as we faced the sudden destruction of our world. 137 00:41:47,875 --> 00:41:50,332 There was nothing left for us to do 138 00:41:50,500 --> 00:41:54,288 but to crowd as much as possible into our remaining life 139 00:41:54,458 --> 00:41:57,370 and meet our end in the noblest manner. 140 00:42:19,375 --> 00:42:21,661 And there again came upon us 141 00:42:21,833 --> 00:42:26,327 the rare experience of a unified mind among the species. 142 00:42:29,167 --> 00:42:33,661 For a whole year, every individual entered a trance 143 00:42:33,833 --> 00:42:37,121 in which we resolved many ancient mysteries. 144 00:43:04,750 --> 00:43:07,287 And in consequence of this, 145 00:43:07,458 --> 00:43:13,408 we found ourselves faced with two tasks that had not yet been contemplated. 146 00:43:18,333 --> 00:43:21,746 First, we have set about the forlorn task 147 00:43:21,917 --> 00:43:26,786 of disseminating the seeds of a new humanity among the stars. 148 00:43:38,708 --> 00:43:42,621 We have devised minute electromagnetic wave-systems 149 00:43:42,792 --> 00:43:47,957 individually capable of sailing forward toward the most promising regions of the galaxy. 150 00:44:01,250 --> 00:44:07,655 These units are so cunningly interrelated that they combine to form spores of life. 151 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:23,743 We shall project these particles in immense quantities. 152 00:44:24,833 --> 00:44:30,658 But the chance that any of them will survive to find a suitable environment is small. 153 00:44:34,417 --> 00:44:39,081 It is clear to us that the work will not be completed 154 00:44:39,250 --> 00:44:42,617 until the disintegration of our community has begun. 155 00:44:51,042 --> 00:44:54,785 The second task that occupies us relates to the past. 156 00:44:59,458 --> 00:45:01,744 We need your help. 157 00:45:40,167 --> 00:45:45,366 We have long been able to enter and participate in the experiences of past minds 158 00:45:45,542 --> 00:45:47,749 as passive spectators. 159 00:45:48,958 --> 00:45:53,497 But recently, we have discovered the power of influencing the past. 160 00:45:55,250 --> 00:46:00,370 This may seem to be an impossibility. A past event is what it is. 161 00:46:06,958 --> 00:46:11,156 But, in certain cases, some feature of a past event 162 00:46:11,333 --> 00:46:14,905 may depend on an event in the far future. 163 00:46:20,125 --> 00:46:22,161 In certain rare cases, 164 00:46:22,333 --> 00:46:28,124 mental events far separated in time determine one another directly. 165 00:46:40,958 --> 00:46:45,201 The past can help us learn once again 166 00:46:45,375 --> 00:46:48,788 that supreme achievement of the human spirit: 167 00:46:50,250 --> 00:46:55,449 The loyalty to the forces of life embattled against death. 168 00:47:28,167 --> 00:47:31,739 But what is it that we seek to contribute to the past? 169 00:47:36,667 --> 00:47:40,330 We want to help the past make the best of itself. 170 00:47:44,042 --> 00:47:49,116 We seek to direct the attention of past individuals to truths, 171 00:47:49,292 --> 00:47:51,783 which would otherwise be overlooked. 172 00:47:55,583 --> 00:47:58,575 Those of us who still care for the life of the mind 173 00:47:58,750 --> 00:48:03,665 are tempted to regret that humankind did not choose decent suicide 174 00:48:03,833 --> 00:48:06,666 before the degeneration began. 175 00:48:08,375 --> 00:48:10,991 But this could not be. 176 00:48:11,167 --> 00:48:14,659 The mission we undertook had to be completed. 177 00:48:17,500 --> 00:48:20,867 This is the last office of humanity. 178 00:49:12,583 --> 00:49:14,574 I am speaking to you now 179 00:49:14,750 --> 00:49:20,245 from a period about two thousand million terrestrial years in your future. 180 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:28,867 It has become very difficult to reach you, 181 00:49:35,625 --> 00:49:38,697 And still more difficult to speak to you. 182 00:51:03,042 --> 00:51:05,158 Some centuries have now passed 183 00:51:05,333 --> 00:51:10,373 since the sun began to show the first symptoms of disintegration: 184 00:51:10,542 --> 00:51:14,911 Namely a slight change of color toward the blue, 185 00:51:15,083 --> 00:51:18,496 followed by a definite increase of brightness and heat. 186 00:51:43,167 --> 00:51:49,288 The deluge of solar radiation has had a disastrous effect on the human organism. 187 00:51:56,250 --> 00:51:59,287 We are the wreckage of our former selves. 188 00:52:57,708 --> 00:53:03,157 The normal power of telepathic communication is now so unreliable 189 00:53:03,333 --> 00:53:09,158 that we have been compelled to fall back upon the archaic practice of vocal symbolism. 190 00:53:58,958 --> 00:54:02,246 Away from the sun's destructive heat, 191 00:54:02,417 --> 00:54:08,663 we are forcing our planet outward from its old orbit in an ever-widening spiral. 192 00:54:14,667 --> 00:54:19,957 But we have not been able to prevent the climate from becoming more and more deadly, 193 00:54:24,375 --> 00:54:27,617 even at the poles where we have migrated. 194 00:54:28,708 --> 00:54:32,701 The intervening regions have all been deserted. 195 00:54:39,250 --> 00:54:43,869 Evaporation of the oceans has thrown the whole atmosphere into tumult. 196 00:56:55,958 --> 00:57:00,577 Now and again, we meet together, the few that prevail, 197 00:57:01,750 --> 00:57:04,662 to hearten ourselves with one another's presence. 198 00:57:11,458 --> 00:57:14,621 We can only sit in silence, 199 00:57:14,792 --> 00:57:18,614 groping for consolation and for strength. 200 00:57:24,500 --> 00:57:28,914 Sometimes, the spoken word flickers between us, 201 00:57:29,083 --> 00:57:34,203 shedding a brief light but little warmth. 202 00:58:01,583 --> 00:58:03,869 But listen patiently. 203 00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:14,833 This is not our last word. 204 00:58:26,083 --> 00:58:33,205 We, the last men, still have something in us left from the time that is past. 205 00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:13,573 The stars have their beginnings and their ends. 206 00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:19,539 For a few moments, somewhere in between, 207 00:59:19,708 --> 00:59:24,122 a few, very few, may support thought. 208 00:59:55,833 --> 00:59:59,655 The universal end comes in due course. 209 01:00:10,083 --> 01:00:15,157 After the end, events unknowable will continue 210 01:00:15,333 --> 01:00:20,657 in a time much longer than that which will have passed since the beginning. 211 01:00:27,958 --> 01:00:34,784 The whole duration of humanity, its evolution and many successive species, 212 01:00:34,958 --> 01:00:39,577 is but a flash in the lifetime of the cosmos. 213 01:00:52,375 --> 01:00:58,450 Looking at the heavens and at the Violet splendor that seeks to destroy us, 214 01:00:59,833 --> 01:01:03,451 we are filled with awe and pity: 215 01:01:08,458 --> 01:01:13,578 Awe for the inconceivable potential of this bright host 216 01:01:20,958 --> 01:01:27,033 And pity for its self-thwarting effort to supplant the universal spirit. 217 01:01:38,458 --> 01:01:42,656 We find ourselves filled, in spite of everything, 218 01:01:42,833 --> 01:01:46,246 with a triumphant love of our fate. 219 01:04:00,833 --> 01:04:03,199 Great are the stars, 220 01:04:08,625 --> 01:04:12,197 And humankind is of no account to them. 221 01:04:27,625 --> 01:04:32,449 But humankind is a fair spirit, 222 01:04:47,042 --> 01:04:49,624 Whom a star conceived 223 01:04:51,500 --> 01:04:54,116 and a star kills.