Blade Runner 1982
I don’t really like dystopian movies however, I knew Blade Runner was a classic, I decided to watch it so I could talk to other people about it. Why watch a movie if I don’t have anyone to discuss it with? I took a film course a few semesters ago and watching this movie allowed me to use the knowledge of what I already knew. The way the scenes were light and the angles that were used for suspense or the close up shots that pulled you into each character made the movie enjoyable.
LA kind of looks like NYC which made me sick. I hate the idea of cities that are only large buildings, where are the TREES?
As a philosophy major I thought it was interesting to view this movie and its intersection with class and how class is often portrayed in media that focuses on the future. The “retiring of replicants” reminded me of the brave new world and the aspects of dystopian societies having the power to create an eliminated people they deem unnecessary. By Design replicants are there to be used, which is kind of what happens in society right now. They may not be robots per say but people who are poor are often put in compromising positions where they are chained to the system of capitalism that does not benefit them and that was by design.
The idea of replicants also reminds me of deep fakes today. The same way people struggles to identify replicants, people are consistently in this fight to understand and debunk what is and is not AI and though sometimes its self explanatory when things are and are not real it is scary to live in a word where my likeness can be used without my control against me. Also I love Harrison Ford.
