What's not to love about Blade Runner? It's got Harrison Ford, gunfights, giant neon screens everywhere, and sketchy forced romance. Okay, that last one is pretty creepy, but overall Blade Runner is a beautifully crafted movie. The characters all have intense motivations, and the constant dark and rainy skies keep the feel of the movie gloomy throughout.
One topic that I found interesting that the movie addressed was the mass growth of technology and commercialism. As for the technology side of it, technology, nuclear weapons specifically, were what caused the destruction of Earth in the background to the movie. The author also shows flying cars and giant screens and some really cool technology, but the overall feel makes me think we aren't supposed to appreciate the giant boost of tech. There are advertisements and screens flying around you and covering apartment buildings, or any building really, causing you to be bombarded constantly with product placement and consumerism.
Technology also allowed for the creation of replicants, who the blade runners are sent to hunt down to prevent human casualties. even after a great war, technological advancements still are threats to humans and need to be contained. Blade Runner painted technology as something that could advance rapidly and bring great achievement, but needs to be contained for our safety.
Just a quick comment at this point: I really like this. It seems like an accurate take on technology--it helps the corporations, but nobody else.
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