Film Review

Blade Runner (1982)

When I first watched this film, the first thing I did was payed attention to the detail about the style and how realistic it looked for a 1982 film. Blade runner is a sci-fi film that takes place in Los Angeles in a 2019-set. The strange setting of the future of the world had no government, the setting that looks more of a developed Tokyo with massive TV billboards showing Japanese girls drinking the famous brand Coca-Cola. We can see cars that look like flying boxes and even 30 years later the radio still playing rock n roll.

To understand what a blade runner is, it’s a special skilled hunter/detective who tracts and kills all replicants. Replicants are manmade creatures that process all human attributes, the only thing missing is feelings. They have been built to serve as slaves in Earths colonies that are elsewhere. Whenever the replicants rebel, the hunters are given the job of eliminating them. Rick Deckard is the main character played by Harrison Ford, is a supposedly an expert about replicants and one of the best blade runners, which is now a retired cop. The beginning of the film, he is told that there are a group of dangerous replicants on the loose and is offered the job of hunting and eliminating them. Really, he can't say no, he knows what he's got to do.

Yes, it’s a sci-fi, but there is a bit of romance in the film, which drew me into the film even more. Of course, it would have to be one of the replicants called Racheal, which was predicable indeed. She is an assistant to the high-level industrialist who created her. The director Ridley Scott, did very well on creating a gritty future sci-fi film that captures romance and the importance of human society.

While watching the film, it brings new discoveries and mythological references which becomes more appealing and great entwinement with a bit of humour. I believe it's one of the best narrative uses of a sci-fi setting and truly deserves all its recognition.