Blade Runner
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it?
That's what it is to be a slave.
One of the fathers of cyberpunk movies, along with Akira.
Just like "The Thing", the directors here made an insanely good job adapting a nice book to a masterpiece.
The distopian nightmare of the book, where the hate between machines and humans is much more accentuated, becomes only a background theme in the movie, that takes a more positive and existential approach (without leaving the dark distopian look and social disgrace)
I've seen things people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire, off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-Beams glitter in the dark near the tannhauser gate.
All those moments ... will be lost in time... Like tears in rain.
Time to die.
Even though I liked Villeneuve's sequel more, this movie remains a column in cinema history. The character of Roy Batty becomes more appreciable in the movie, just like Rachael, that doesn't end living up to the fears of humanity about replicants.
The book replicants were more frightening, more egoistical, and that's why I didn't like them.
They felt like two different stories, one about the indifference of metal and artificial creatures about human nature and emotions ...
And the other about the good sides of progress, the fact that even a machine could learn what it feels to be alive ... through the experience of death itself.