P.Huntley, Jr.)By telegram, the errant Sir Hecter Brandon instructs Lady Patricia to sell the sapphire to pay off his debts.(Director Boorman pursued the same complex eco-message heme of man vs.nature in other films, includingZardoz (1973)andThe Emerald Forest (1985).) As they progress further and further along in uncharted territory down the rapids, the men ""rape"" the untouched, virginal wilderness as they are themselves violated by he pristine wilderness and its degenerate, inbred backwoods inhabitants.As the Cameron house is raided, ransacked, and set on fire by the black Northern militia, the Cameron women hide...from 1950 to 2000" - from his own 20th century past - and asked to provide important historical information on them ("very little exists").