The Blade Runner Blog

        The Blade Runner took a unique look into the near future. This dystopian film captures the falling of clones/androids on our society. The film gets an average rating. The emotions that the movie displayed, showed the frightening scenario of that future. The movie was meant to play under darker light but it seemed to dark. The constant rain also displayed the melancholy atmosphere but constant rain does not make up Los Angeles' climate. The movie had a future-like exterior but a present-like interior within the buildings. A good example is the police station near the beginning of the film.
        The movie has hidden question within the story as well. There is the suspicion of Ford's character being a replicant. One reason is his lack of emotion for most of the film and the fact that he never took the emotion and eye test as well. The movie is also telling what society may look like in time. Ethnicities are drawing closer and closer to each other. Blade Runner presents a society where languages and races are coming together. Different languages are spoken at the Japanese bar at the beginning of the film. The film also brings up the hope of flying cars in the future. For the most part, flying cars with only be used by the rich or the government.
        What caught my attention in the film was the use of clones or androids. I believe the cloning could become even more of a discussion in the future. Watching the movie made me think of The Island. That movie was about clones that were of the same genetic makeup of real humans. I connected the replicants in Blade Runner to those clones. In reality the replicants are not human. In their minds, just like in The Island, they feel like they are real humans. The replicants have the motivation like real humans and wanting to live longer. The replicants also enjoyed the luxuries that everyday humans possess. At the beginning the one replicant had a home, another replicant enjoyed dancing, and a third also enjoyed dancing and theater. Both movies deliver a fine line between human and clone.
         Being the first future film so far, there's that understanding of how today will affect the future. If that film was shot today, our idea of the future would look very different compared to the movie's idea. The technology in the film replicates technology of the 80s. For example there are no touchscreens or HD televisions. With the American way of life, foreign languages and cultures would not completely dominate an American city. The buildings in the movie looked very future-like. It is very unlikely for a building like the corporation building to look like that in the near future.
        Though the future looks very primitive I do keep in mind that the movie is 30 years old. A sci-fi movie today that would try to portray 2043 may look very different than expected as well. The idea of cloning for slavery is what I take most from it. Cloning for slavery can be looked at as a morality issue in the future. It can lead to a discussion between human and non human. It is an issue currently and it can certainly become a larger issue in the distant future.