Blade
Runner (1982), by
Ridley Scott Actors:
Harrison Ford, Sean Young
Based
on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", the film is one of
the most popular and influential science-fiction films of all time, and many
films have attempted to duplicate its dystopic, cyberpunkish look (influenced by "Metropolis" and "2001: a
Space Odissey").
This is an ambitious, enigmatic, visually-complex noir
detective thriller, having all its requisite parts - an alienated hero of
questionable morality, a femme fatale, dark sets and locations in a dystopic Los
Angeles of 2019, and a downbeat voice-over narration.
Its
main character is a weary, former police officer/bounty hunter who is
reluctantly dispatched by the state to search for four android replicants (robotic NEXUS models), created with limited
life spans (a built-in fail-safe mechanism in case they became too human) that have
escaped from enslaving conditions on an Off-World outer planet to locate their
creator and force him to prolong their short lives. The film's theme is the difficult
quest for immortality. Moreover, asks the veritable question: what does it mean
to be truly human In fact one of its main posters
advertised the tagline: 'MAN HAS MADE HIS MATCH - NOW IT'S HIS
PROBLEM.'
A
masterpiece for science fiction lovers
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