A Sci-Fi Classic.
Written: Mar 28 '00
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Pros: Excellent film, great effects and moral questions.
Cons: Not a con to be mentioned.
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| spoalanm's Full Review: Blade Runner |
Interesting that they (epinions) put this film into the 'Film Noir' category. True, it IS a very dark film, mood-wise, and literally throughout most of the movie. But is it really a film-noir? And why haven't they placed it into the category of science fiction, unless the staff at epinions thinks that there really ARE Replicants out there running around?
In any event, if you classify it as film-noir, cyberpunk, or science fiction, Blade Runner stands out as a classic. Harrison Ford plays Deckard, a quasi-burned out cop of the early 21st century, who is one of the elite Blade Runner unit. This unit was designed to "retire" (read: execute) Replicants who set foot back on Earth. Replicants are considered to be dangerous, which they are, but they are more angry than anything else. Why? Because even though they are classified as robots, they are really human beings that are put together at the Tyrell Corporation, and then used as slave labor in off-world colonies. And to make matters worse, Tyrell only gives them a four year life span. To make Replicants more human-like, they are also implanted with a bunch of bogus memories, since they are "born" as adults. Pretty nasty stuff. And some Replicants aren't even AWARE that they are Replicants. Hmm..could this apply to our Balderunner friend Deckard, the hero of the movie? There are clues in the Director's Cut of the film that strongly lead to this conclusion.
This film is a dark vision of what our not-too-distant future could look like. It shows that if you make a robot human enough, what you've created may no longer be a robot, but a real human being.
In an odd kind of spin on this film, my girlfriend has just purchased a computer game called 'The Sims'. This game allows you to create computer generated "people", and even allows you to paste your own or your friends faces on them. She loves this game, but it gives me a major case of the creeps, and kind of reminds me of this film; creating people and such, and regulating their reality and their world. What happens when the "me" that lives in the game decides he has had enough of computer reality and wants out? What happens when computers evolve enough so that the characters you create get more and more realistic? Will we have a Blade Runnerish problem when these characters decide that they want more than virtual reality?
Recommended:
Yes
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