wants you to stay.
He's ready to die and
wants a real man to replace him.
-What do you say?
- Me - a real man?
l'mjust a puppet.
- Half-wit.
- Wrong.
You're a real man.
And not the only one -
there are another forty million.
You'll be okay. Get up.
Take my rifle?
Yes.
This was the epicenter.
Don't touch anything.
It will be contaminated for 200 years.
Half my life as a puppet...
- ...and now a homeless bum.
- Stop whining.
Let's go.
Come in, my friends.
My friends!
We've gathered to discuss
our friend Mak's proposal.
Perhaps this will decide our fate.
Please be seated.
Have a cup of something.
l don't want to.
The soldiers are
pushing us into the desert.
ln 10-15 years we'll
be in the desert and die there.
Without water and food.
Our friend Mak first
wanted to arm us...
...and lead us into battle.
But he saw...
...that we are weak.
Then he decided
to go to the desert-dwellers,
...make a deal with them...
...and lead them against the soldiers.
And from us?
He needs us to let the dessert
people through our land...
...and give them food...
...while the war is on.
That's whywe have gathered.
l don't get it.
He wants barbarians to come?
They'll kill us all!
- l know them!
- They'll come in peace or not at all.
Better not at all.
Better not to deal
with the barbarians.
You think l don't know?
Even the soldiers are better.
That's true, of course.
But the barbarians might push
out the soldiers and leave us.
Not touch us?
For ages they kill us
and now theywon't?
Mak will convince them.
Nothing will come of this.
l'm leaving.
They'll kill him and us, too.
We don't need this.
Let us die in peace...
Leave us alone.
You hate soldiers
and want to destroy them.
Why involve us?
We don't want revenge.
Pity us, Mak.
Why should he? He's a soldier, too.
Since when do soldiers pity us?
My dear friends!
Mak is our friend.
He wants the best for us
and to destroy our enemies.
No, it's not for us, Mak.
Let things be.
You ought to see the wizard, Mak.
What? l didn't do anything.
Really, maybe Mak can
make a deal with the sorcerer.
Boshku, the tea is good.
Don't go to the sorcerer.
Don't even think about it.
Don't go.
They say that bats do his bidding.
And mutants.
Beasts with wings.
ln general, these places are...
Did you hear that children
are taken at night?
But no one enters the houses.
Kidsjust sleep walk
to him by themselves.
Lies.
Maybe they are,
but l've seen a few things.
- Mak!
- Stop! Stop!
They're alive.
But like they're hypnotized.
Loweryour gun.
Or better- leave it here.
Or better foryou to stay here.
-l'll go alone.
-No.
Listen.
Why are you doing this?
What can the sorcerer tell you?
Let's go.
Massaraksh!
- Come on!
- Massaraksh!
Balance.
The world is in balance, Maxim.
You want change.
You asked the mutants for help,
the most pathetic and
unfortunate people,
who bear the burden of this balance.
But they didn't want
to change anything.
-Why, then?
- Because people should be free.
Who are you to decide for them?
Gai, do you like your new freedom?
-Are you happy?
- l don't know.
Are you scared?
Yes.
Maxim, your reason is clouded
by conscience and unable...
...to distinguish true good
from imagined good.
Your conscience is spoiled.
Reason must subdue it.
Overcome it.
Conscience gives ideals.
Which reason seeks
means to achieve?
Means never fit within ideals.
And then the ideals
must be widened...
...or conscience narrowed.
Your conscience wishes
to unseat the Unknown Fathers.
Reason advises:
'Since terrorism can't destroy
from within attack from without.
lnvolve the barbarians
so the mutants die...
and the Blue Snake
river be filled with bodies.
Let a huge war begin!'
'So, said your conscience, frowning...
l must compromise for such a goal#
Yes, Massaraksh! Yes!
What choice do l have?
There are forty million
beyond the Blue Snake.
They're walking corpses.
You are a force, Maxim.