Blade Runner
Blade Runner. What a masterpiece.
Blade Runner follows Rick Deckard bounty hunter/police officer who gets tasked to retire (basically in other worlds kill off) rogue androids that escape from off-world colonies. Does androids are known as Replicants. I also love that the word they use to kill off The Replicants. Also sounds like it dehumanise them. I love the amount of smart and detailed writing in this film.
Set in a fictional 2020. The world is in a pretty awful place. Animals almost entirely sees to exist. And they are all replaces by machine animals.
The Replicants themselves are stated to be indistinguishable from human beings. But grows this underlying question...What makes us human? And can something that's build by humanity. Truly could be classified as sentient.
Throughout the course of the film. Deckard learns that the newest model: The Nexus 6. That he's hired to hunt. Has become much more advanced that what he's familiar with. Even at the moment moment when meets Rachael for the first time, he thinks of her as human. Until later realized that she's a Replicant herself.
One of does Nexus 6 Replicants Roy Batty (The Replicant Deckard got sent out to hunt.) Is one of many androids who goes back to earth. To face they're creator Eldon Tyrell. Trying anything they can to change they're measly 4 year life span. Roy after anything going on around his character in the movie finally confronts his creator. But sadly Tyrell reveals it's an impossible task to change the life span of him or any other Replicants entirely. So Batty murderes him. Effectively killing his own God. Witch is not unlike how humans killed God. So to speak. Trough the advancement of science or technology.
At the end of the film. Roy Saves him. Deckard must now face with his previous fews or confines/preconceptions on Replicants. He gets a sufficient realization of what truly a Replicant is. They Aren’t bad forms of nature. They are just trying there hardest to be happy or survive. And that's every human tries to do aswell.
In his final moments Roy, after being confronted himself by Deckard. This time reflects all of his amazing moments or experiences he's lived throughout his life. He understands that fighting Deckard is ultimately meaninglessness. Because his real battle was with time, and time alone. And that's something all of us must struggle with. Whenever your human and animal or machine. The end is enviable and time keeps going to fulfill that end. Whenever you like it or not. It's a fight everyone must lose Replicants or human. And thats probably the most human thing.
This is one of the most gorgeous and smartest sci-fi films or films I've ever seen. It struggles with the underlying confines of love, death, time, mortality and humanity. All the confines and the relationship between Deckard and Rachael. A Blade Runner falls in love with a Replicants and at the end of the film runs aways with her. Thinking she loves him like he loves her. And things she's not loving by her programing, and actually loving him. Still to this day I'm not sure if Rachael was actually in love with Deckard. Or a glitch in her programing. I guess we'll never know.
The thing I love so much about Blade Runner is that it's dripping with style. The set designs are amazing. Visually it's one of my favorite movies ever. The sets, the buildings the lighting are all so perfect. I mean the lighting and cinematography are genuinely mind blowing. The score by Vangelis is amazing. What a masterpiece in tone, style and beauty.
One of the greatest Sci-Fi movie in my opinion. It's definitely the smartest and most fearfully detailed films ever. PEAK CINEMA IN ALL FORMS!