Blade Runner Review
Blade Runner holds a legacy in the realm of futuristic sci-fi movies with a philosophical twist. Taking place in the city of Los Angeles, the plot involves the hunting down of artificial beings known as replicants. These replicants are very much like a human, almost physically indistinguishable without special detectors apart from their blunted emotional capacity in certain situations. Regardless of the ability to feel, these replicants have ventured to Earth in hopes of finding their maker to figure out a way to live longer.
The setting of the movie is somewhat gloomy and difficult to navigate as the city is cluttered with various forms of media and advertising. Appearing full of technology and digitized substance, it would seem likewise that replicants would be part of this environment quite easily. However, that is not the case as they were banned from earth awhile back. As a matter of fact, the small team of replicants that have arrived on Earth are at risk for being tracked down and destroyed by a Blade Runner, the name for the authorities on Earth in charge of keeping earth replicant free.
It is a rather strange twist of fate that the replicants face. While they are faster, stronger, smarter and overall more powerful than a human, they were not designed to be living beings. Instead, due to the fear humans have of losing their place as the top species, the replicants were made to be controlled and used for work that humans did not want to do, because the replicants were designed to be able to complete the tasks much more efficiently. Hence, to prevent any loss of power, the humans capped the lifespan at 4 years, which is exactly what the replicants want to change. The risk in that is that replicants were designed so well that given enough time, they may intellectually over power humans in so far as to develop a full range emotional capacity, which would make them undetectable amongst people. For them, they simply want to continue to experience life, but for humans, they are a threat.
The replicants strongly desired to be accepted as a part of humanity, despite their pre-programmed mechanical differences. It leaves a few possibilities open to consider in what may have happened if the humans had accepted the replicants into society. In that, it is certainly uneasy as an intelligent life form to battle against these odds. With only four years to live, the meaning of life itself is brought into debate. As the replicants memories were pre programmed, how could they distinguish reality from what may have been pre programmed for them, and really know that it is truth? In that case, the experiences outside of their pre programmed memories would be the basis of living.
The setting of the movie is somewhat gloomy and difficult to navigate as the city is cluttered with various forms of media and advertising. Appearing full of technology and digitized substance, it would seem likewise that replicants would be part of this environment quite easily. However, that is not the case as they were banned from earth awhile back. As a matter of fact, the small team of replicants that have arrived on Earth are at risk for being tracked down and destroyed by a Blade Runner, the name for the authorities on Earth in charge of keeping earth replicant free.
It is a rather strange twist of fate that the replicants face. While they are faster, stronger, smarter and overall more powerful than a human, they were not designed to be living beings. Instead, due to the fear humans have of losing their place as the top species, the replicants were made to be controlled and used for work that humans did not want to do, because the replicants were designed to be able to complete the tasks much more efficiently. Hence, to prevent any loss of power, the humans capped the lifespan at 4 years, which is exactly what the replicants want to change. The risk in that is that replicants were designed so well that given enough time, they may intellectually over power humans in so far as to develop a full range emotional capacity, which would make them undetectable amongst people. For them, they simply want to continue to experience life, but for humans, they are a threat.
The replicants strongly desired to be accepted as a part of humanity, despite their pre-programmed mechanical differences. It leaves a few possibilities open to consider in what may have happened if the humans had accepted the replicants into society. In that, it is certainly uneasy as an intelligent life form to battle against these odds. With only four years to live, the meaning of life itself is brought into debate. As the replicants memories were pre programmed, how could they distinguish reality from what may have been pre programmed for them, and really know that it is truth? In that case, the experiences outside of their pre programmed memories would be the basis of living.
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