I saw Blade Runner a couple of years ago, but I forgot most of the parts, so it was time to rewatch this. I feel very ambivalent, because although it has so much value, I could notice its flaws as well. I think many people don't connect with Blade Runner, because it's visually a nightmare, not as spectacular as blockbusters nowadays and considered as boring. In my opinion, it carries its quality inside. However, the fact that it's always raining and the sun's never shining could be a sign of a depressed or woeful point of view that the future will be depraved and full of sins. Furthermore, I don't feel Rick Decard has been in the centre of the story, although everyone - who is not familiar with Blade Runner - identifies the film with him or at least with Harrison Ford. I couldn't get to know him better during its runtime, simply becuase it didn't show me a single detail about him besides his profession and task. I rather could emphatize with the enemy (according to the film), a gang of Nexus 6 replicants, who start a rebellion because of their role of the society and suppression. That fascinates me the most, the Nexus 6 replicants become self-aware, and realize they have a life, which is more controlled than humans', because their life is exactly estimated, they are living for the same amount of time nothing more, nothing less. This brings up questions. How come don't the older versions know who they are, just the new Nexus 6s? Why would Tyrell Company make much more developed versions if they wanted to utilize them as slaves? Certainly, they don't feel it right, and the rebellious gang's leader Roy Betty is the one, who wants to be equivalent to humans. So I think his death - although it's not shown onscreen - the nail in his palm and the white pigeon refer to he is a similar kind of figure to replicants as Jesus was to the mankind. If this dark distopy could become reality it would mean the end of mankind. Hopefully Philip K. Dick's fiction won't come true neither in 2019, when the events take place, nor ever.
Review by DeletedBlockedParentSpoilers2017-10-02T12:45:23Z
I saw Blade Runner a couple of years ago, but I forgot most of the parts, so it was time to rewatch this. I feel very ambivalent, because although it has so much value, I could notice its flaws as well.
I think many people don't connect with Blade Runner, because it's visually a nightmare, not as spectacular as blockbusters nowadays and considered as boring. In my opinion, it carries its quality inside. However, the fact that it's always raining and the sun's never shining could be a sign of a depressed or woeful point of view that the future will be depraved and full of sins.
Furthermore, I don't feel Rick Decard has been in the centre of the story, although everyone - who is not familiar with Blade Runner - identifies the film with him or at least with Harrison Ford. I couldn't get to know him better during its runtime, simply becuase it didn't show me a single detail about him besides his profession and task.
I rather could emphatize with the enemy (according to the film), a gang of Nexus 6 replicants, who start a rebellion because of their role of the society and suppression. That fascinates me the most, the Nexus 6 replicants become self-aware, and realize they have a life, which is more controlled than humans', because their life is exactly estimated, they are living for the same amount of time nothing more, nothing less. This brings up questions. How come don't the older versions know who they are, just the new Nexus 6s? Why would Tyrell Company make much more developed versions if they wanted to utilize them as slaves?
Certainly, they don't feel it right, and the rebellious gang's leader Roy Betty is the one, who wants to be equivalent to humans. So I think his death - although it's not shown onscreen - the nail in his palm and the white pigeon refer to he is a similar kind of figure to replicants as Jesus was to the mankind.
If this dark distopy could become reality it would mean the end of mankind. Hopefully Philip K. Dick's fiction won't come true neither in 2019, when the events take place, nor ever.